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A Stone's Throw

Benjamin Espen May 25, 2022

First four St. Tommy, N.Y.P.D. books on sale

Declan Finn’s St. Tommy, N.Y.P.D. series has one of the best portraits of a genuinely holy man I have seen in fiction. In my review of Hell Spawn I said: This book made me want to go to confession. Tommy Nolan lives in a world where
Benjamin Espen May 24, 2022

The Long View 2009-01-01: Count Your Blessings

It might not be obvious, thirteen years later, but this was John J. Reilly’s deadpan satire of how 2009 could have been worse. Count Your Blessings For many people, the television images this morning of the continuing sack of the Green Zone brought a sense of closure, if not
Benjamin Espen May 24, 2022

Drizzt and Hobbes

Benjamin Espen May 24, 2022

Conan

Benjamin Espen May 23, 2022

Who you gonna call?

Benjamin Espen May 22, 2022

Linkfest 2022-05-20: The La Sierra System

Art of Manliness: The Insanely difficult standards of history’s hardest PE program A fascinating read on the La Sierra System, an ultra-competitive PE program that produced the kind of fitness you find in elite operators. I don’t think you could just duplicate this everywhere and get the same
Benjamin Espen May 20, 2022

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