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Sam Calagione founded one of my favorite breweries, and Elizabeth Downer’s Pittsburgh Post Gazette review of his new book, coauthored by wine guru Marnie Old glosses on a couple of important factoids before skipping to generalities, and recommending a bunch of wines. Folks say that the book — He Said Beer, She Said Wine — […]
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Happy Independence Day! To celebrate, below is a letter written by Darwin on July 4, 1858 to an American: botanist Asa Gray. Gray pretty much started the botany program at Harvard, and was an immense help with developing Darwin’s carefully wrought theory. Darwin observed peculiarities in Dicentra (Bleeding Heart) flowers that he links to the […]
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…but I knew that! We, like a lot of publishers, send lots and lots of books to the New York Times Book Review. In a recent post, their Paper Cuts blog took a look at all the great swag they get. They get hundreds of books per day, but as for the “ephemera,” they get […]
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Barack Obama is now the repository of the hopes and dreams of all those cosmopolitans and sophisticates who still see Iraq as a disastrous mistake, the war on terror as a fiction, and a return to the Bill Clinton years of supposed ‘peace and prosperity’ as seven years overdue. But these expectations are already so […]
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Nat Hentoff of the Village Voice is one of the most outspoken critics of the Bush Administration. In his June 24 column, he picks up a couple Cambridge law titles that hammer home Bush’s legal sidestepping. “In a June 6 letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey—largely ignored by a press immersed in the future of […]
Read MoreRecent news media has swarmed over the high costs of Texas’ raid on the FLDS Zion ranch, and on placing hundreds of children in foster homes. What are the real costs, however? Crunch the numbers, says Marci Hamilton. “Recently, I debated Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff on NPR about his office’s failure to vigorously prosecute […]
Read MoreUPDATE 7-25: Check out this week’s letter: Darwin Builds a Fort! Charles Darwin was a typical teenager. He thought that some of his teachers were full of crap, and wasn’t afraid to say so (at least to his sister). This letter from Charles to his sister Caroline has a few choice words for a professor […]
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What is it, you ask? It’s one of my personal favorites. It’s apologizing, but not really. In fact, it’s apologizing for someone else instead of for your own ridiculous behavior. “I’m sorry you feel that way.” (About my inability to hold a passing interest in our discussion) “I’m sorry that things just didn’t work out.” […]
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