This has been a most unsatisfactory week. Among other life-changing crisis’ (crisises? crisi?) is when I discovered a nice, big, fat, thick book I had been reading and enjoying didn’t have a three week lending period, but a two week lending period. Drat! I was just getting to a good part, too. It was called Click Here to continue reading.

Why should we bother to exist? What gives life meaning? Why shouldn’t we all just give up and go off into that good night?
I doubt that you want to hear my answers to those questions. And frankly, I am not at all sure that I would be edified to hear your answers to those Click Here to continue reading.

This post is a comment that I left on my own blog in response to Mr. La Roche. This is getting to be a bad habit with me. But when I write two pages out, I hate to bury it in the comment section. Especially when writing out those two pages prevented me from writing Click Here to continue reading.

They say to stand out one must be original. They say to advertise well one must be original. They say to sell one must be original.
Perhaps I should take a lesson from Miranda July, the author of No One Belongs Here More Than You. She decided to create the website for her book on the […]

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I am making this response to a comment on my last post into a post of its own. I am doing this mostly because I think that this comment is what I should have said in the first place. It captures the heart of my reaction to Mr. La Roche’s post in a more condensed Click Here to continue reading.

In a comment left on my rant against the Economist and in a post on Fistful of Euros, Guy La Roche asks….

Has anyone questioned, since Ape Man mentioned the name, the psychology behind a guy like Mark Steyn? It would go a long way in understanding his motives and way of thinking. And it might Click Here to continue reading.

Ok, one verrry last post on Dressaday’s Airplane Rant, and then I’ll stop. Really and truly. Honest.
Unfortunately, something tells me this post of mine is going to be pretty much wind up as a rant itself. Probably because of certain phrases, like this one from the comments from someone by the name of “wampoline”:
I have Click Here to continue reading.

. . .is that, among other things, you get 98% of the way through writing a post, and suddenly discover that you are sick of sitting in front of the monitor, and being still all except for your fingers. Then you have to choices: keep writing, and invariably have a sloppy ending, or stop writing, Click Here to continue reading.

One of things that annoys me about life is the people who claim to sincerely care about Islam and yet turn around and say that they want Islamic moderates to rescue Islam from the fanatics. In my not so humble opinion, people who are looking for moderate Muslims to step up to the plate and Click Here to continue reading.