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Challenger's Hope Book Review

by David Feintuch 407 pages; $5.50 The last time I read through David Feintuch's Seafort Saga, I stopped here. The second time, I forged through to Fisherman's Hope, the fourth book in the seven [eight] book series. I can at least recommend that anyone who

Burning Tower Book Review

by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle $7.99; 655 pages I reviewed Burning Tower along with Burning City a year ago. I recently re-read them both, so this seemed like a good time to expand upon my rather cursory review of Burning Tower. Burning Tower picks up a year after

CrossFit 2013-03-13

Habemus Papam! This one is Italian in honor of our new Pope Francis. * 1/2 mile run * 21 tossing Italian twists * 1/2 mile run * 15 tossing Italian twists * 1/2 mile run * 9 tossing Italian twists Time 15:20 Last time 15:41

Thumos

The Art of Maniliness has a good post today on Thumos [ θυμός]. It reminded me of something I read just yesterday on James Chastek's Just Thomism, The American Student. Here is the passage from Got Thumos?: Why is it that many men seem so lacking in thumos today?

Tax inflows and outflows in Italy

Tax inflows and outflows in Italy

A while back I joked in a post about the the conquest of the Papal States about the prime exports of southern Italy being mafiosi while northern Italy exports luxury cars. Economic differences between the north and south were a factor in my review of Gunslinger Girls as well. There

The Eight book review

by Katherine Neville 624 pages; $16.00 Browsing through past books I've read, I came across The Eight, by Katherine Neville. When I read it, I thought it was pretty cool. Probably in 2000 or so. I was given this book by a co-worker, and it was a

Thoughts on Batman: Arkham Asylum

Thoughts on Batman: Arkham Asylum

What jury wouldn't vote to kill this man?Back to the regularly scheduled program of reviewing things that aren't new. I'm not so much interested in reviewing this game as in reflecting on it. I've really enjoyed Christopher Nolan's Batman