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Did you just say 'abortion addict'?
A woman who had 15 abortions in 15 years? Befuddling and bone-chilling, you say? Do read these musings about her memoir: When I was asked to review this book, I kept thinking of course by book’s… more →
The Frothy Tome
Did you just say 'abortion addict'?
starbreez wrote 1 month ago: A woman who had 15 abortions in 15 years? Befuddling and bone-chilling, you say? Do read these musin … more →
On taking a 'digital sabbath'
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starbreez wrote 1 month ago: There’s probably something disingenuous about finding this delicious reading, in lieu of actua … more →
A spoonful of antiquity
starbreez wrote 3 months ago: … makes the antiquarian in me bow down. I wisnae so bowled over by the Dead Sea Scrolls themse … more →
What does it mean to be free?
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starbreez wrote 5 months ago: Why is it that for some people, drinking a drop of liquor would be a grievous error, when for many o … more →
This can't be good
starbreez wrote 5 months ago: Let’s get this straight — temptation never ends till you’re dead. I was a fool to … more →
Hello there
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starbreez wrote 5 months ago: My name is you-know-what, and I am a book-buying addict. Last night, after getting home a little bef … more →
The final stretch
Barliman wrote 6 months ago: Just a quick update on my “no buying books until I’ve read ten I already have” Lon … more →
iPlunged
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starbreez wrote 8 months ago: So I woke up from a nap today feeling as though I was surfacing from a fever. And maybe I was, despi … more →
High whattage
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starbreez wrote 8 months ago: Am at last using these extra days to myself (HK has an extra public holiday following Easter) to cle … more →
And then there were six...
Barliman wrote 8 months ago: It’s been quite a while since I posted anything. Sorry about that, but, if I don’t find … more →
Reading mist
starbreez wrote 9 months ago: What a fantastic way to show a reading list: From "A Baghdad Reading List" by Rod Nordland … more →
I can read!
starbreez wrote 9 months ago: This is sordid old news to the more surfy crowd, but according to a recent UK-centric survey, two-th … more →
Surely, you jest
starbreez wrote 9 months ago: Great metaphor for Jon Stewart from The Guardian: It was this comedian who, like a court jester, tol … more →
How creepy is that?
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starbreez wrote 11 months ago: I thought “sheeple” was a cute but appropriately tough coinage, till I googled the term … more →
Book one
Barliman wrote 11 months ago: Just to follow up on my earlier post about the Ten Book Rule, first on the list is Davis’ Look … more →
More words than you can shake a stick at
starbreez wrote 1 year ago: Year’s end means lists, and lots of ‘em. The only ones I feel obliged to skim are those … more →
Best. Inauguration. Ever. Yes!
starbreez wrote 1 year ago: The eloquent Ta-Nehisi Coates on Elizabeth Alexander, the poet who will read at Barack Obama’s … more →
All we need to know
starbreez wrote 1 year ago: Art is neither a luxury nor a necessity because it does not yield to categories. Just a thought put … more →
Balinitis
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Brian Reiter wrote 1 year ago: Frustrating Drips For the past few months, my juvenile male Azawakh, Azelouan, has been dripping … more →
