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good periodical readings

my grandmother used to subscribe to ellery queen mystery magazine, reader's digest, true story, true confessions, and craft magazines. The ones i see on the market today don't really have any good...

Which is better?

Please choose between "Tuesdays with Morrie" and "The Purpose Driven Life". I want to give my mother a gift for her birthday and I can't decide what to choose. She just said she would love the idea...

So Nice And Quiet

You don’t want to hear such stuff? Fine.

“Arctic Freshness Tempered By The Dry Crease Of Good Bond Paper”

Good food writing is hard to do, particularly in a smaller field like describing booze. I have just discovered the writing of Lew Bryson from a post on John Hansell’s blog, and quite like the...

Can’t Wait Till CDR Salamander Riffs On This

Brit ship is very capable as long as you don’t need to, uh, kill anything. HMS Daring, first of the Type 45s, will have been in Navy hands for a year in eight days’ time. She is armed...

This Certainly Gives Me Confidence

Months after telling a guy to do a job, everyone gets in a room to discuss how he’s going to do it…and immediately begin disagreeing as to what the job is. …a mission statement on a...

Wired’s Joshua Davis On The Cougar Ace

This is the kind of Wired story I like the best: following a group of people doing something very interesting as they do the job. It’s that great mix of nerdery and Boy’s Own adventure...

Aid And Comfort Achieved

…by forcing useful assets out of position, and hounding people out of the job they needed to do. Great work. I see why the New York Times won’t report on the Climategate emails, now;...

Who’s An Abolitionist Today?

The correctness of the statement is damning. It is 150 years to the day since John Brown was hanged, and more Africans are being enslaved today than at the height of the infamous Atlantic slave...

It’s Spelled “hangAr”, People

“Y’all make a great photo op.” Or not. Sometimes stage management has unintended consequences, I suppose.

China’s New Boomers: Loud, Says ACW

Here’s a verrry interesting link: the Arms Control Wonk starts looking at submarine radiated noise, using US unclas documents. He comes to a conclusion I disagree with and overcompress to:...

Uh-Oh

If true, this is bad. An Afghan source in Kabul reports that U.S. Ambassador in Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry is holding secret talks with Taliban elements headed by the movement’s foreign...