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July 2008

July 14 Book Review: American Creation by Joseph Ellis

June 2008

June 03 New Michelangelo Book Looks To Break Bank, Back

April 2008

April 14 Jordan Crane Cover Art for Michael Choban

April 14 Quantity Rather Than Quality (Pollan)

April 09 The Evils of Trans Fats, or, How What We Been Told About Nutrition Is Really Wrong (Pollan)

April 08 The “Imitation” Food Label and the Food Industry (Pollan)

April 07 Our Diet Is Killing Us (Pollan)

April 07 Decline of Human Civilization Is Apathy (Boulle)

March 2008

March 31 The Rich Are Really Rich (Frank)

March 09 FYI: Updated Recommendations

March 04 Not What You Eat, But What They Ate (Pollan)

March 03 A Matter of Affordability or Priority? (Pollan)

February 2008

February 26 You, Sir, Are Sitting In My Niche (Pollan)

February 25 The Conservative Soul

February 21 Simplicity Is A Great Bulwark To Government Abuse (Sullivan)

February 18 The Genius of Government Inefficiency (Sullivan)

February 10 Conservatism’s Goal Is Security (Sullivan)

February 09 Conservatism Is A Radical Alternative (Sullivan)

February 01 The Unhinged Powers of the Presidency (Sullivan)

January 2008

January 31 Bush’s Second “Born-Again” Moment (Sullivan)

January 22 Peterson On Tolkien, the Grey Havens and A Far Green Country

January 20 The Glorification of Brutality (Sullivan)

January 17 The Fundamentalist Psyche (Sullivan)

January 16 Fundamentalism: Conservatism’s Arch-Enemy (Sullivan)

January 14 Politics That Engage More Fully & Freely (Sullivan)

January 04 They Led Innocuous Lives (Bryson)

January 03 Andrew Peterson Lists Top Books of 2007

January 02 The Awesome Totality of the Spanish Armada’s Fall (Bryson)

January 02 The Efforts of “Supreme Loveliness” (Bryson)

January 01 The Latest Rage: Black Teeth (Bryson)

December 2007

December 29 Sticking It to the Man, Puritan Style (Bryson)

December 24 A Personal, Typographical Christmas

November 2007

November 27 NY Times Releases Their Top 100 Books of 2007 List

November 08 Fame Is A Fleet-Footed Hussy (Jacobs)

October 2007

October 18 Legacy Of Defeat

September 2007

September 20 The Government Wants You To Get Permission First

August 2007

August 12 Glacier National Park Could Be Glacierless By 2030 (Diamond)

July 2007

July 11 Surprise! Potter Has Limited Effect On Reading Habits.

July 10 The Book Digest - July 9

July 10 Five Things Which Have Been Making July Fly By For Me

June 2007

June 20 Wealth Is Either A Great Blessing Or A Great Curse (Rockefeller)

June 14 Andrew Keen on Google, Blogging, Twitter, and Web 2.0

June 07 Free Markets Can Wind Up Being Terribly Unfree (Chernow)

May 2007

May 21 Technology Can Be A Helpful Handservant (Brende)

May 17 Reading Books Is About Stretching Your Horizons (Karlin)

May 07 It’s About Time You Started Posting Again!

May 06 Better To Let It Speak For Itself (Brende)

May 05 Technology Serves Us (Brende)

April 2007

April 23 Progress Becomes Its Own Self-Justifying Loop (Brende)

April 19 Accepting Technology Has Become Automatic (Brende)

April 19 Happy Thursday

April 18 Children of Hurin

April 01 Character Is Connected With The Intellect (Willard)

March 2007

March 29 The Amazingly Demanding Process Known As Life (Bryson)

March 28 Making The World A Better Place? (Glassner)

March 23 Host To An Enormous Party (Bryson)

March 21 I Am A Son of Abraham

March 20 The Wonderment Of Science (Bryson)

March 13 Energy Right Over Our Heads (Bryson)

March 06 Yellowstone Park Is A One Big Supervolcano (Bryson)

February 2007

February 28 A Striking Feature About Our Atmosphere (Bryson)

February 27 The Solar System To Scale (Bryson)

February 24 Space Is Huge (Bryson)

February 23 Rapture Wreaks Havoc On Local Book Club

February 23 On The Plausability of Using Nuclear Warheads To Defend Earth From Asteroids (Bryson)

February 22 TMN’s 2007 Tournament of Books

February 22 We Haven’t Even Broken The Skin (Bryson)

February 22 Space, Time, & The Illusion Of Gravity (Bryson)

February 20 The Size Of An Atom Is Incredibly Small (Bryson)

February 18 The Incredible Nature of Atoms (Bryson)

February 13 Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, A Review Of

January 2007

January 26 Stickiness

January 24 Theory of The Universe (Adams)

January 15 Books Never Let You Down

January 09 Living On Purpose

January 05 The Waste Generation (Bryson)

January 03 A Cultural Repository Or Middle Class Welfare?

December 2006

December 30 We Won’t Walk Anywhere (Bryson)

December 29 On The American Reaction To Certain Risks (Bryson)

December 26 On The Sheer Enormity Of A Trillion Dollars (Bryson)

December 22 The Might of Glaciers vs. Man (Bryson)

December 19 Americans Drive Everywhere (Bryson)

November 2006

November 16 Getting Real

October 2006

October 27 Ballsy

October 24 Mayflower

October 18 Recently of Note

October 16 Flags Of Our Fathers, Part II

October 09 Flags Of Our Fathers, Part I

October 02 Ten Months Without Cable, Or My Love-Hate Relationship With My Library Card

August 2006

August 27 Steinbeck on Death, Love, & Man’s Driving Force

August 25 My Respect for John Steinbeck

August 16 A Momentary Pause In Value

July 2006

July 17 Revenge of the Bookeaters NYC

July 17 Feeding The Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerves Took A Team To The Top

July 15 FYI: Finished “Feeding The Monster”

July 12 Feeding The Monster Excerpt

July 11 Playing For Home Field (& Other Items)

July 10 Excerpt From “Feeding The Monster”

April 2006

April 18 A Birthday Gift

April 16 Summertime is here!

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