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New:   1. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay  2. Children of Virtue and Ve...

Imagine a centralized directory of all unionized employers - where they are located, what kinds of jobs they hire for, whether they have rem...

Star : You never turn down the chance to try something new. You've got an adventurer's spirit; though, it's not just for the fu...

I had to buy a new coffee maker last year, and ended up with a 5 cup Hamilton Beach front fill, basically because that was the first one ava...

New:   1. Still Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton 2. Land of Roar by Jenny McLachlan Reread: 1. Delusion in Death

 From a recent Carolyn Hax : Hello Carolyn: Our son’s wife of several years chose to hyphenate our last name with her maiden name. Whenev...

There is a logical fallacy called reductio ad absurdum , meaning attempting to establish a claim by showing that the opposite scenario would...

Dear Miss Manners : Or should I say “Hi, Miss Manners!”? I have noticed that all email, and lots of snail letters, even business ones, sta...

Sometimes I hear people say they're less worried about COVID than they were in previous years. That surprises me, because I'm more w...

New:   1.  Working with Difficult People: Handling the Ten Types of Problem People Without Losing your Mind by Amy Cooper Hakim and Muriel S...

As I've blogged about before, spicy food doesn't work for me . It's physically painful in a way that drowns out the underlying f...

A strong narrative early in the pandemic was also if we do the right things, we'll be okay. Mask up, stay home, be kind, we'll get t...

New:   1. Dancing Through the Snow by Jean Little 2. City of Dragons: The Awakening Storm by Jaimal Yogis & Vivian Truong 3. In the Silh...

New:   1. How To: Absurd Scientific Solutions for Common Real-World Problems by Randall Munroe 2. The Madness of Crowds by Louise Penny 3. P...

I keep running up against the problem of not being able to find a good word for the overlap between "walkable" and "accessib...

From time to time, charities I've donated to send me a fundraising letter with a small free gift, in an attempt to entice me to donate m...

New:   1. When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed and Victoria Jamieson 2. The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell   Reread:   1. Indulgence ...

Recently in the news: a proposal to tax the childless in order to incentivize people to have children .    That will never work.   Here ar...