Daily Archives: March 15, 2006
When People Who Don’t Get It Attack
Posted on March 15, 2006 31 Comments
This fellow thinks I gave a “lukewarm” review to Glenn Reynold’s An Army of Davids for fear of displeasing his Instapunditness, who might then stop giving my books his all-encompassing love. He also calls me a hack. After I stopped giggling at both these things, I posted a long comment on his site, which I […]
New TGB reviews
Posted on March 15, 2006 8 Comments
Hey! A nice review of The Ghost Brigades in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and it gives a shout-out to the idea that the book is fun to read even for folks who aren’t steeped in SF. This is happy news, because I aim for accessible. The review also gives a thumbs up to […]
Coming Around to My Way of Thinking
Posted on March 15, 2006 15 Comments
An interesting datum from a new and largely disastrous new poll for President Bush: President Bush’s declining image also is reflected in the single-word descriptions people use to describe their impression of the president. Three years ago, positive one-word descriptions of Bush far outnumbered negative ones. Over the past two years, the positive-negative balance has […]
Thoughts on An Army of Davids
Posted on March 15, 2006 12 Comments
I‘m reading Glenn Reynolds’ An Army of Davids, and I’m not in the least bit surprised to say I find not much of it surprising; this book includes much of the tech- and markets-related thinking that Glenn’s been working on at Instapundit and in his various online columns, boils it down into an easy-to-carry package, […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying