Doubt the Experts

With all of the recent political developments, I thought I'd comment on the election again. In my opinion, it's a good thing that Bi...

I seem to be past the point when I was interested in finding a better place to live. After I graduated from college in 1972, I stayed tempor...

I've officially entered my summer doldrums and don't feel like reading much now. At this moment, I don't have many tasks to comp...

Though politics is not one of my favorite topics, because most political discussion is frivolous and this is a serious blog, I do feel oblig...

I recently read a short piece by Rachel Carson, and she is quite a good writer. Since Silent Spring , which was first published in 1962, is ...

It has been a cool spring here but is about to get very hot. I'm going to see if I can get by without turning on an air conditioner, bec...

I have been reading this book by Bryan Caplan, mainly because I agree with its title, but I was barely able to convince myself to finish it,...

I walk this exact route through my suburb of Flemington every morning. It's not beautiful or meaningful to anyone but me. I barge out my...

At this time last year, I hadn't yet purchased the house, so I'm now seeing other plants blooming in the yard. There were daffodils,...

I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you—Nobody—Too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise—you know! How dreary—to...

On some of my posts, I've referred to evolutionary and other processes as random. It is possible that that is correct in a strict sense,...

I've been reading biographies for a while now and thought I'd write a little about their inconsistencies. On average, I still think ...

Dating back to the 1960's, I've always had difficulty understanding campus protest. I mean that not in the sense of not understandin...

I did finish reading Burn Book , by Kara Swisher, but I don't think that it merits much discussion. Swisher has covered the tech industr...

Spring is here in earnest, and, consequently, I'm going through my annual behavioral changes. The winter was very warm – it barely got d...

I've finished this book, and did actually find it quite interesting. Ordinarily, I have difficulty relating to the thinking process of t...

After her 1947 strokes, McCullers increasingly required assistance from others to go about her daily life. She was partially paralyzed on he...

McCullers had a poor health history while growing up, and this continued for the remainder of her life. Generally, she had lung problems, an...

I've started this new biography by Mary V. Dearborn. On the whole, Carson McCullers is not an ideal subject for me, because I'm not ...

I'm getting off to a very slow start for reading this March and hope to pick up my pace a little. I have a new biography of Carson McCul...