Watched "Eleventh Hour." I liked the episode a lot and like just about everything about the new season except the actor playing the Doctor. Don't care for him at all. We'll see if he grows on me. Flavia and everyone else I have heard from seems to like him, so who knows? To me, he is just too goofy. Which I guess is a little weird ( Read more... )

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Started reading "Wealth of Nations," by Adam Smith and am already formulating an article, "Where Adam Smith went wrong." Of course, the second I thought of that, I figured I would need to follow it up with "Some more of Smith's Greatest Mistakes," and "Who is this Smith person anyway?"

"The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature. . . . [In] the formation of the American governments . . . it will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of heaven. . . . ( Read more... )

We may congratulate ourselves that this cruel war is nearing its end ( Read more... )

The second in a series of posts on expensive things I want....

The Slate is HP's answer to the iPad. As much as I love my Apple products, this one seems to have the better selection of features and since it runs on Windows 7, it will be no problem to use all the Savage World eBooks I have on it for gaming.

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I said before that Trek books are like Romance novels for Sci-Fi fans. A friend of mine who reads romance had a rule once (don't know is she still does) that she only lets every other book she reads be a romance novel. I can see why now. Starting to read Trek books again lately has gotten me back in the habit of reading regularly and ( Read more... )

and other sites where readers can submit reviews is that ever time you have a series of books, the later in the series the book is, the better the rating. At first, I would get hopeful that this meant the series I started gets better with each book. Then it occurred to me. If you read the first book and don't like it, you are less likely ( Read more... )

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