I recently read Sebastien Junger’s book War. It was captivating because of the real life-or-death action and thought-provoking because of the deeper central idea. If you think about it, for the last 100,000 years, anatomically modern human beings have been struggling for survival. Many times, what was trying to kill them was other human beings. [...]

1 comment  » Read the rest

My wife gave me a Kindle. I obviously knew about the Kindle and I am an admitted bibliophile so I was curious, but, like many, I love traditional paper books so much that I wasn’t sure I’d enjoy the Kindle. I love it. It is really awesome. Here is why. It’s not backlit. This is [...]

 » Read the rest