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The Long View 2005-09-27: The Triumph of the Will

I keep meaning to read Francis Bacon's The New Atlantis. I bought a copy in 2011, and I haven't got around to it yet. I've been working through the backlog recently, so maybe I'll get to it soon. It is a part

The Great Year Book Review

By Nicholas Campion Penguin Arkana, 1994 696 Pages, US$14.95 ISBN 9780140192964 I picked this book up on the advice of Damian Thompson, Catholic gadfly and Internet rabble-rouser. It has taken me a while to get around to it, but this is a propitious time. This book is by

The Long View 2005-09-22: Bush makes the sun go nova.

NASA finished up the Exploration Systems Architecture Study (ESAS) in 2011. At this point, Elon Musk is showing them up. Bush makes the sun go nova. Does the president have any friends left? He has a popular base that is probably a plurality of the people, and a majority will

Linkfest 2017-08-18

Short shrift today, since we are going camping, so here is the full first episode of the new DuckTales from Disney. A 120-Year Lease on Life Outlasts Apartment Heir From 1995, but still interesting.

How to turn a Vintage Zenith Radio Cabinet into a Lighted Bar Part 3: Cabinet Work

Cabinet Work Starting with cutting the door, the interior of the cabinet needed to be reconfigured to make it workable. The Door My across-the-street neighbor has a nice woodshop in his second garage, so I asked to borrow his table saw to cut the door. I finished up the top

The Long View 2005-09-20: Holy Libertarians on the Moon

I've benefited from programs in the state of Arizona that allow tax dollars to be redirected to Catholic schools by individual taxpayers, but I get what John Reilly is saying here about the dangers to churches of becoming dependent on public funding. Holy Libertarians on the Moon Regarding

Keynes: The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist Book Review

Keynes The Rise, Fall, and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist by Peter Clarke Bloomsbury Press 2009 $20.00; 211 pages ISBN 9781608190232 I received this book for free as part of LibraryThing's Early Reviewers program. This is a fun little book, and by