Category Archives: General

“Fuel Efficiency Standards Have Costs of Their Own”, New York Times11 September 2012http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/business/fuel-efficiency-standards-have-costs-of-their-own.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all Synopsis:  while President Obama has been successful in forcing manufacturers to adopt stricter fuel efficiency standards, in the long run  this isn’t truly helpful, because it doesn’t … Continue reading →

This week the Broke and the Bookish are asking for bookish confessions. I think I already confessed to some of my more egregious book-related actions, like ruining my middle-school library’s copy of For Whom the Bell Tolls by spilling milk on … Continue reading →

Jim Lovell was having dinner at the White House when his friend Ed White burned to death.  Actually, it was’t dinner Lowell was having, just finger sandwiches, orange juice, and unmemorable wine laid out on covered tables in the Green Room. p. … Continue reading →

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly event in which participants share excerpts from their current reads: the host is Should Be Reading. Only a handful of the French population — one recent estimate puts it at 10 percent — goes to … Continue reading →

A little award-survey game has been going around the biblio-blogging community, one in which participants are tasked with answering eleven questions and then charged with fashioning eleven questions of their own and firing them at another batch of people. Well, … Continue reading →

This week’s Booking through Thursday question: So other than books … what periodicals do you read? Magazines? Newspapers? Newsletters? Journals?  Do you subscribe? Or do you buy them on the newsstand when they look interesting? Funny BTT should ask! I’ve been … Continue reading →