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Behold: Our Bêtes Noires
bête noire. Noun. Something that is particularly disliked. A person or thing that one particularly dislikes or dreads. Collins English Dictionary Admit it: somewhere out there, there’s a book you...
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Words Not Needed
“But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more...
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Oh, The Places You’ll Go
Most of us have seen or heard comments about books and reading; their ability to transport us away from the here and now to the wherever and whenever. It could be Berlin in the Cold War and you’ve...
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What Your Dad Used to Read
“I am tall, and I gangle. I look like a loose-jointed, clumsy hundred and eighty. The man who takes a better look at the size of my wrists can make a more accurate guess. When I get up to two twelve I...
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“Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is not a drill!”
USS West Virginia, Pearl Harbor 12/7/1941 Tomorrow marks the 72nd anniversary of the Japanese attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii. The next day President...
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The Last Word For 2013
A group of us got together and decided that the last blog post of 2013 should be a shared effort, with each of us offering a notable quote from something he or she read during the 2013 calendar year....
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You Can do That
With the arrival of the Vortex I decided to check on an attic window I replaced last year. All things considered it seems to be doing what it was designed to do: keep out the elements. I know it...
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What Happened to Standards?
Each source you cite in the paper must appear in your reference list; likewise, each entry in the reference list must be cited in your text. - Publication Manual of the American Psychological...
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Librarians
You wouldn’t know the truth if it kicked you in the head. – Hitch I sometimes wonder if the First Amendment should be conditional, though I’m not sure what the criteria or who the arbiter would be. It...
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5 Held in Plot to Bug Democrats’ Office Here
By Alfred E. Lewis Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, June 18, 1972 And so began Watergate, 42 years ago tomorrow. I was in my early teens during the last year of Richard Nixon’s first term, 15 when...
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