“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Thanks a lot, John Adams, and happy birthday to you too. ~CKL
Year: 2008
Where in the World?
Propagating my friend Marko’s travel meme… Five really interesting/beautiful foreign places I’ve visited: British Columbia Niagara Falls Taiwan Mexicali Hawaii (that’s a “foreign place,” right, Cokie Roberts?) Five countries that are high up on my List of Places I Want…
I Voted Yesterday.
The government here in our new home conducts all elections by mail, so D and I have already cast our ballots. If you can vote early, I encourage you to do so. Yesterday, I helped decide legislation and appoint leaders…
Truthful TV Title Cards
From glark.org: See the original post for more. I want these on T-shirts. ~CKL
Classic Trek FTW
“Let’s put it this way: Kirk kissed a lot of ladies, and none of them were his sister.” — Stephanie Reid-Simons, “Star Trek ain’t Star Wars, J.J.!” from armchaircommentary.com I, too, have my doubts about next year’s Trek reboot. Abrams…
jra’s thoughts redux
My friend Jeff, late of MSF and now in the UK, recently started blogging again. He’s a smart geek who cares. You should read his stuff. ~CKL
“Whether apostrophe or inverted comma…”
“…there’s no one as Irish as Barack O’Bama.” ~CKL
Charity Begins at Reading the Fine Print
While preparing myself for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I browsed the nanowrimo.org web site and saw a “Get Sponsored!” link. Intrigued, I clicked, and was initially pretty happy: You can get friends and family to sponsor your novel-writing month…
Pulp Direction
Today is the birthday of Lester Dent, creator of Doc Savage (“The Man of Bronze”). Writer’s Almanac describes his formula for writing a 6,000-word pulp story: Dent wrote more than a thousand pulp fiction stories, all with the same formula,…
Now We are on iTunes
I just realized that I hadn’t actually announced my latest project here. Last week, I launched a new blog, 512 Words or Fewer, where I’ll publish a flash fiction story every Friday and post audio of myself reading that story….