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BEA Is Coming!

Book Expo America is Coming to Los Angeles Will you be there? I won’t, but Cambridge will! I went last year and had a great time, but this year I’ll begetting married instead, so I think that’s...

16 May 2008

New York Moves to Reform SOLs

View Assemblywoman Margaret M. Markey’s announcement here. According to the site, “Assemblywoman Markey’s resolution focuses attention on her bill to extend state’s statue of limitations...

14 May 2008

Vows of Silence: The Cult Within

Highly regarded author Jason Berry has produced a remarkable documentary based on the book, Vows of Silence, which he co-authored with Gerard Renner. This one-hour film tells the story of the Vatican’s...

Marci A. Hamilton | 13 May 2008

What’s with the Panic Over Russia?

The US sometimes just can’t get Russia. And that’s nothing new. For decades, through propaganda, pressure, and direct religious missionary work, Americans tried to persuade Russians that they...

David Foglesong | 12 May 2008

Anchor Brewery Welcomes Bamforth

I love the Anchor Brewing Co.’s beer. I love it. I love Anchor Steam, I love their Christmas beer on the less “piney” years, I love Old Foghorn, and I really love the rye and gin they’ve...

Charles Bamforth | 9 May 2008

The Story Behind the Story of Polygamy in the West

According to the New York Times front page story today, the Texas raid on the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas, “rattles other polygamists.” Apparently, FLDS members outside Texas are poring over the...

Marci A. Hamilton | 8 May 2008

Great Post on Wine and Beer

I dig this guy’s (well, assuming gender from the moniker Saucyman) writing. From SAUCYMAN: “My bias leans towards beer; wine has always remained a bit of a mystery to me. Beer is easy, heuristic;...

7 May 2008

FDLS Arguments Will Not Hold Up

From today’s Fort Worth Star Telegram When Texas authorities entered the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch, one of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS) compounds, on April 3, they did so using...

Marci A. Hamilton | 6 May 2008

I’m Sorry. No You’re Not!

A great summary of some of my best argumentative skills. Nick Smith wants a better dialogue than this. Flash Fiction reviews I Was Wrong, and gets right at the issues at hand. “Alfred Kinsey’s...

2 May 2008

Beer vs. Wine Friday

And the winner is…. Shawn the Beer Philosopher, with: “In wine is truth, in beer is strength … in between them both is one happy man!” Enjoy the book, and keep your tables ring free! Thanks...

2 May 2008

War Poet Wednesday

Women love a man in uniform, so they say. James Winn points out that even in 1714, some women saw through the supposed dignity that the red British military uniform brings. Some things never change; the...

James A. Winn | 30 Apr 2008

Beer vs. Wine Fridays

Caption This Image! Ahh, the life of a brewing scientist. Pictured above is Grape vs. Grain author Charles Bamforth at a food-fashion-themed cookout. Well, look which beverages were happy to pose in the...

25 Apr 2008