Here’s a story about a man transporting a dime from the West Coast to the East Coast. The catch: the dime is worth $1.9 million: Feigenbaum is a rare-coin dealer, and the dime he was carrying across the country, from San Jose to New York, is an 1894-S dime, one of only nine known to […]
The best war journalism going on right now is not being done by the major news organizations, but by independent journalists such as Michael Yon and Michael Totten. Here’s Totten out with US troops in Baghdad, trying to find a person of interest: The area did appear to be nice, billowing plastic bags notwithstanding. Every […]
It is common in “serious” reviews of J. K. Rowling’s works to start with disclaimers regarding her writing — awkward, overly long, inconsistent, filled with excessive and irrelevant details about this ‘magic’ world, and so on. Give me a break. Rowling has managed to create one of the greatest phenomenons in the history of literature, […]
This came from Little Green Footballs, the video below is a bit long, but is a fascintating piece of reporting from a man who used to be entangled with England’s radical Islamist movements. Somehow he was able to put his feet on a better path, and now is speaking out. If you wonder about where […]
Here is an article in the (U.K.) Daily Mail with some hand-tinted photographs from the Third Battle of Ypres during World War I: As the article points out, over 2000 soldiers died every day during this battle, which lasted for several months (July-November 1917). The ground was so torn up by artillery and flooded from […]
Some people read The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs because it’s funny, clever and pointed. Fair enough. However, buried among the rants and tap-dancing are some profoundly cogent observations on the convergence industries: electronics, software, entertainment, telecom, and information. Case in point is the observation that “Steve” makes on where the music industry finds itself: […]
Approaching the 4th of July
My wife is off in Utah, helping out on the birth of our (let’s see now…) ninth grandchild, so I filled in for her at church conducting music during the sacrament meeting. Our closing hymn was “The Star-Spangled Banner”, and while I managed to keep conducting through the entire hymn (three verses), I only sang […]
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