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New:   1. Maus by Art Spiegelman 2. The Neil Gaiman Reader by Neil Gaiman   Reread:   1. Festive in Death

In a recent Globe and Mail article : Researchers estimate that approximately one in eight Canadian women are likely suffering from an unrec...

 From a recent Carolyn Hax : Dear Carolyn: My girlfriend loves her dog and takes extremely good care of it. I mean extremely. The dog has...

New:  1. Minique by Anna Maxymiw   Reread:   1. Taken in Death 2. Concealed in Death

I previously tried Cascade Complete , and found it subpar and ineffective. However, I recently ran out of dishwasher detergent, and Cascade ...

I recently saw someone on book twitter say that it's a convention of the genre that romance novels have to have a happy ending. That sur...

Since my head injury, my brain behaves as though it's trying to save disk space, by deleting information it believes is no longer needed...

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...