Part I We now discuss the first two of Goldberg’s main claims. Both of them are contentious, are bitterly contested, and passion inducing. Try to keep a cool head; certainly read the […]
Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg: Part I
Fads and Fallacies in the Social Sciences by Steven Goldberg Recommendation: Buy one copy for yourself, another for mother. If Sally is over six feet tall and Bill is over six feet […]
An internet success story: Shakedown by Ezra Levant
Shakedown: How Our Government is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights by Ezra Levant M&S Recommendation: Buy if you want to slip Levant a Loonie, or go to his web […]
Closing Time, by Joe Queenan
Closing Time: A memoir by Joe Queenan Viking Recommendation: Borrow from a library if you’re going fishing and think you won’t be catching much. Joe Queenan’s dad was a self-defeating drunk who […]
Public Enemies — by Bryan Burrough
I am re-posting this book review because the movie came out today, and it might be of interest. Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934 Bryan […]
The Tree Museum — by Kathleen Kaufman
The Tree Museum Kathleen Kaufman Recommendation: don’t read I have a fantasy about how humanity will be perfected when I am put in charge. Not installed bureaucratically, you understand, but as one […]
A poor argument for gay marriage
James Randi, and the rest of the psi-cops, have increasingly strayed from their original—and self-appointed—role of policing pseudoscience and the paranormal, and are instead intent on doing battle with any and all […]
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell
Recommendation: read When Fussell wrote in 1982 (and published in 1983), he said that acknowledging the class divisions that exist in America exist was poor form and that doing so would likely […]
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