President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in 2006. (Photo: Ron Edmonds / AP) read more...

Newsweek's Michael Isikoff reports on an internal DOJ investigation (initiated by the Bush administration) on the Bybee/Yoo memos. H. Marshall Jarrett, chief of the department's ethics watchdog unit, the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), confirmed last year he was investigating whether th...

Ergens in de toekomst zijn brandmannen niet degenen die uitrukken om brand te doven, maar juist om brand te stichten. Huizen waarin boeken zijn aangetroffen, worden in de fik gestoken. Want boeken, vooral oude boeken, literatuur die te tand des tijds heeft doorstaan, maken mensen maar onrustig met h...

The snow is falling hard again. Hubero is sitting on my desk, watching as the white world gets a little whiter. I have promised him that it will be at least Wednesday before the weather forces us to eat the cats. Hubero replies he is grateful to now live in the world of corner stores. Bad insomnia a...

Thanks to Astronaut John, we filled quite a number of requests in one fell swoop! I've got so much to post, this may be a week of request fulfillment! Onto the posts! Like in the old days, feel free to request stuff, but if you send a list of fifty things, I'll probably ignore it. The requests will ...

Shift is a book you’ll want to read twice. Or make that, need to read twice. At least I did. Because when you’re caught up in its breathless, brilliantly woven plot, it’s hard to stop and savor the nuances of what is also a lovely story of friendship, self-discovery, and coming-of-age. (more&#...

A great pal has this short insightful post on his blog, The Lutheran Logomaniac. In case you've wondered at the recent scarcity of posts here, I have been putting most of my blogging energy recently into the new seminary admission department blog called Concordia TheoBLOGical Seminary. Come pay a vi...

So, about that opportunity mentioned a few entries ago... I met Ray Bradbury! We went through hell (AKA the central Valley + Inland Empire) and back to get there with no sleep and no luxuries, but we did it, and it was completely worth it. My signed copy of The Illustrated Man is one of my most priz...

Sono ancora per qualche giorno in ritiro stretto e in compagnia di Miss Austen. Cui devo, fra le molte altre cose, una scoperta: ieri, facendo una ricerca, mi sono infatti imbattuta in un articolo scritto da Ray Bradbury quattro anni fa. Uno straordinario omaggio alle fan fiction, che vi posto immed...

“Sayonara, Bonfire of the Vanities!” Frank Darabont’s adaptation of the classic novel Fahrenheit 451 ranks right up there with Tarantino’s Inglorious Bastards, Fincher’s Rendezvous with Rama and Aronofsky’s take on Lone Wolf & Cub as an epic dream project that...