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 →

When I was 20, my girlfriend’s brother bought me Bleak House for my birthday saying “I love buying books for people who will get pleasure from them.” I’ve flirted with Bleak House more times than I can remember but there is always … Continue reading →

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