A third explanation for Christopher Hitchens' death-bed conversion
In The Long Run
August 7, 2010
The author of "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything" sat for a televised interview with Anderson Cooper this last week. He was on TV to discuss his cancer and his chemotherapy and the question of whether or not his terminal illness had changed, or ever would change, his ideas about [...] [READ MORE]
"Haven't you already read that?"
In The Long Run
July 23, 2010
If I get asked why I read the same few books over and over again (especially The Wind in the Willows and Out of the Silent Planet and That Hideous Strength and The Lord of the Rings and The Everlasting Man) [Note 1: I do get asked this.] [Note 2: A lot], [...] [READ MORE]
Everything DOES connect
In The Long Run
June 13, 2010
In the small eastern Ontario city where I lived in the early 1970's, there used to be a department store called Towers. (In view of the possibility that anyone wonders what happened to it, the fact is that all 51 Towers stores were purchased in 1990 by Zellers. Swallowed alive [...] [READ MORE]
