Category Archives: General

To arms, citizens! The time has come! — for….Teaser Tuesday! “Come then!” cried DeFarge, in a resounding voice. “Patriots and friends, we are ready! The Bastille!” – 245, A Tale of Two Cities. Charles Dickens.

Teaser Tuesdays will be a bit different for a couple of months: I have responsibilities on Tuesdays that prevent me from coming near a computer until the early evening. Thus the link to ShouldBeReading will be to the blog itself, and not … Continue reading →

It’s Teesday Tuese! Or…something. From ShouldBeReading. The sermon was still going on, and  Hornblower feared that when it was finished there would be some more singing, more of those high-pitched noises from the surpliced choir boys which would distress him painfully again, … Continue reading →

And lo! The Tuesday time for teasing is upon us again, from Should be Reading. According to The Gospel of Judas, then, the fundamental problem is that “the twelve” — here, stand-ins for church leaders — do not know who Jesus is and do … Continue reading →

Sunday, Monday, Happy Days Teaser Tuesdays, happy days. (from Should be Reading.) “And in the day that we sweep to victory at the ballot-box, and you refuse to turn over to us the government we have constitutionally and peacefully captured, … Continue reading →

Teaser Tuesdays will be with you. Always. (Obi-Wan Kenobi, A New Hope. May the Fourth be with you, as it is with Should Be Reading) Philosophy was about what you ate, how you had sex, where you lived. Get those … Continue reading →

“Verily, verily, I say unto you…not only for reading was Tuesday made, but for teasing also. (Jesus, Tweet from the Mount) “Leia, he was just a boy. Did you think he came out of the womb wearing a breather and … Continue reading →

A tease, a tease, a Tues-day tease….from Should Be Reading. A well-worn story, perhaps apocryphal, has Churchill recalling the years Nehru spent in British prisons, saying, “You must hate us.” To which Jawaharlal replied: “I was taught by a great … Continue reading →

If it’s Tuesday, I must be teasing like Should Be Reading.  “The ticks are not bad, are they?” I asked him hopefully, viewing the tall grass and underbrush between the road and the mounds. “No,” said the driving, beaming. “When … Continue reading →