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Book Review: “The Incredible Shrinking Man” by Richard Matheson
Sexual Perversion & the Incredible Shrinking Male Id Small guys... big problems. On the surface Richard Matheson’s “The Incredible Shrinking Man” is about an average Joe who shrinks one inch every...
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How about that Zombie Apocalypse?
Book Review: “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War” by Max Brooks pushes the zombie novel out of camp’s camp. The introduction to Max Brook’s marvelous zombie novel “World War Z” starts this...
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New Jack Reacher Thrillers Reach Too Far
Book review of “61 Hours” and “Worth Dying For” by Lee Child Jack Reacher is like a pissed-of Superman with five o’clock shadow and a coffee addiction. His back-story is typical of the American tough...
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War What is it Good For?
Book Review of “War” by Sebastian Junger. Sebastian Junger, the author best known for “The Perfect Storm,” spent a total of five-months embedded with a platoon of the 173rd Airborne brigade in...
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Chomsky & 9/11 Remembered
AP Photographer Richard Drew's famous "Falling Man" photograph. In 2001, less than a month after the 9/11 attacks, Noam Chomsky, the philosopher and astute critic of modern society, had this to say:...
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Income Inequality & the Pursuit of Poverty
Book Review: “The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger” by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett The headline trumpeting from USA Today this morning is chilling: “Poverty at 15.1%,...
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Best Books (and Worst) of 2011
I’ve been recording every book I’ve read since 2001. I’m on my second notebook and have averaged about 45 books annually for the last 12 years. 2011 fell short of my average at 42 books (26 fiction,...
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Obama’s War Crimes
High crimes. President George W. Bush committed war crimes during his presidency. How do we know this? One way is because Bush boasted about violating the Geneva Conventions and sanctioning...
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5 Great Books About the End of the World
It’s coming on Thursday. Doomsday. Well, maybe not the true “End of the World,” but financial collapse and the end of our collective 401(K) plans. Hopefully, the less extreme elements of the...
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6 Books I’ve Read 3 Times
I don’t often read books more than once. There is only so much time, after all, and so many damn good books. So why keep going back to the same well? That said I am guilty of reading six books three...
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