Review: The Second Sex
by Philistine that I am, I had never heard of The Second Sex, a 1000-page protest of woman’s lot in life by existentialist Simone de Beauvoir, until …
Category: Literature
Liberals Moan Over Right-wing Book Sales
Don Surber says that the lefties are getting their knickers in a twist because conservative authors such as Ann Coulter, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, and …
The Tragedy of the Week
With Ted Kennedy and Dominick Dunne passing on this week you might think this article is about one of them but you’d be wrong. No, …
Playboy’s Interview with Ayn Rand Fascinating, Disappointing
Though not normally on my reading list, it came to my attention that Playboy has published the text of it’s 1964 interview with Atlas Shrugged …
Business / Literature / Society / Taxation
Who is John Galt?
Steve Hayward says that if Barack Obama’s trillion-dollar tax increase is implemented that he will go on strike in the fashion of John Galt, Ayn …
Gays, Books, Tolerance and Equality
Joe Windish says that he’s got to give Focus on the Family credit for their demonstration of public high school library’s intolerance for Christian literature …
Crime / Justice / Literature / Politics / Society / Stupidity / Technology
SFWA, Scribd.com and ePiracy and why its important
by Over the Labor Day weekend there blew up a weird story that involved the Science Fiction Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) and the website scribd.com. For …
Islam / Literature / World
It’s a Only a Book…
…and you know the one that I’m talking about. It is, after all, the only article on the planet made of little bits of wood …
“Happiness” by Michael Van Walleghen
From In the Black Window: New and Selected Poems. © University of Illinois Press Melvin, the large collie who lives in the red house at …