Better to go down in glory, adventurers to the very end, than to wait for the end to come to us. Continue reading →

I read The Quiet American when I was still entirely in love with the romance of South East Asia. Continue reading →

The End-of-Life Handbook recommends using ritual to create meaning. Continue reading →

Three stars does not mean average. Three stars means it was really good. Continue reading →

The religious battles of the 2000s in the USA backfired spectacularly and any victories were pyrrhic and temporary. Continue reading →

The core idea is sound. According to the author of The Three Languages of Politics, there are three separate buckets of political thinking in the USA: a libertarian bucket, a progressive bucket and a conservative bucket. For each bucket, there … Continue reading →

I know about all the setbacks and and the successes. I know all the great put downs (Lady Astor: “If I were your wife, I’d put poison in your coffee.” Churchill: “If I were your husband, I’d drink it.”). I know all the speeches. … Continue reading →

Sin is just a manifestation of our Human Propensity to Fuck Things Up. Continue reading →

I love buying books for people who will get pleasure from them Continue reading →

The Road is about a man and a boy. And nothing happens.