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Jeffrey Tayler on "Islamophobia" 27 Aug 2013 | 01:39 am
Jeffrey Tayler Rolf Potts' Vagabonding Update In the Salon article "Richard Dawkins is not an Islamophobe" (August 24, 2013), the writer Jeffrey Tayler argues that Nathan Lean's recent "attack on the...
Matthew Schrier's Conversion to Islam: Cynical? Stockholm Syndrome? Or Nonpathological? 26 Aug 2013 | 12:51 am
Matthew Schrier New York Times Was Matthew Schrier cynical, pathological, or nonpathological in his conversion decision as the captive of Islamist jihadists in Syria? Consider the following sequence ...
Daniel Acosta on Art and Science: The Golden Ratio 24 Aug 2013 | 11:37 pm
My old Baylor friend Daniel Acosta, who double-majored in biology and English literature, now works as a gastroenterologist in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he often muses on art and science and writes...
Ken Askew, Former White House Speechwriter, Recommends The Bottomless Bottle of Beer 24 Aug 2013 | 01:53 am
At last appears a review of my book on the Amazon site, and I couldn't ask for a more positive recommendation: Horace Jeffrey Hodges is the Umberto Eco of beer novels. And a whole lot funnier. He's a...
Camille Paglia: Ever Bracing to Read! 23 Aug 2013 | 12:53 am
Camille Paglia Salon In Tracy Clark-Flory's recent Salon interview of Camille Paglia, the ever-bracing Paglia -- who seems to be channeling Samuel Huntington, at least in part -- had this to say abo...
Translating Yi Gwang-su: The Soil 22 Aug 2013 | 12:40 am
Yi Gwang-su Wikipedia I finally finished proofreading Yi Gwang-su's novel The Soil, or rather, I stopped my proofing upon reaching the last word in the novel, for the proofreading process is truly e...
How People Love Craft . . . 21 Aug 2013 | 01:04 am
H. P. Lovecraft Wikipedia I was just today reflecting on my debt to H. P. Lovecraft's works for my Bottomless Bottle of Beer novella, and what should I come across in my daily newspaper reading, but ...
The Heffalump Strikes Again! 20 Aug 2013 | 01:22 am
Elephant Smack! One of my former students sent me this photo of her altercation with an Asian Elephant, and she wrote: I'll send you an amusing picture of me in Phuket which was taken during my fami...
Proofing The Soil 19 Aug 2013 | 02:54 am
Amazon Although this image above already appears on Amazon, the book is not yet in print. In fact, I'm in the middle of proofing it -- I've reached page 401 and have 338 more pages to proof. Here's ...
Directangular? 18 Aug 2013 | 12:54 am
An intellectual dialogue over the concept of "directangular" . . . Jeannie: "I tell you, it was directangular!" En-Uk: "Was it truly directangular?" Mr. Scott: (under his breath) "There is no direc...
