Letters from the front

… duplicated so soldiers can get back to their primary work of doing good deeds on behalf of the people of America (as a courtesy we are not, as far as I know, requiring the people of Iraq to repay…

‘nother editor’s blog found

Brian Sawyer’s a book editor whose blog’s called the Olive Press. He lives up the road in the Wine Country and writes about a lot of books folks like us would be reading if we weren’t, well, squandering our precious…

One Hell of a story

A buddy of mine I’ll call Gee keeps a Web site called hellonearth.com, which existed in happy obscurity until a band called Hell on Earth announced somebody would commit suicide during one of its concerts. Suddenly all manner of goofiness…

International carrier day

Let me say right here, in honor of International Carrier Day, that I learned no valuable lessons about life, economics or journalism from my stint as a newspaper carrier. All I learned was that it sucks to be the only…