I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group...They are subversive. You think they're just sitting there at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man.
-Michael Moore on Librarians who know how to keep Books Alive What's That You're Reading? Book Start
Nick Cave is a spiritual man, so I decided the best way to start was with a confession: I was a complete Nick Cave virgin. I'm not sitting here before you having spent 20 years falling at your feet. It was a real experience for me to learn your work. I went on a journey Darker is the day: Beware of blind spiritual spots
Art of Living & Literature Across Frontiers: Drive that Bears Historical Fruit
The ability to shift the audience from thinking Poor him! to Poor us! must surely be a mark of greatness in an actor
Dr. Thomas Woods has achieved a tremendous amount in a very short period of time. In fact, many of his contemporaries will be deflated to discover what his age actually is:
The Straussians argue that although the Lockean natural right of revolution – that is, the right to overthrow the government and replace it with a new one – inherent in the people is legitimate, no legal right of secession (the withdrawal of a state or states from the Union) exists
• History and Truth [The girls who just can't get enough of that gold: The women's relay team and Danni Miatke all triumphed today as Australia took its 10th gold medal at the world swimming titles in Montreal More gold at Montreal ; The Australian swim sensation on top of the world Reluctant Superstar ]
• · Money can't buy you love, but sadly it might just help shift the odds in your favour Wisdom's folly: Can't Buy Me Love ; The thing missing was the very sense that anything could be important What We Lose When We Forget What Sex Is For ; Francis Crick suggests where to find the seat of consciousness Crick's last stand
• · · A sellable product or service, great systems and terrific marketing The ways to succeed The agency has taken more than twice the 30 days allowed by regulation to review the 330-page book Anonymous former CIA Author Reveals Himself, As He Sues Agency ; The Elegant Variation Friday Grab Bag
• · · · Frankfurt Will Follow Surprise Hit with Book for Knopf The Writer Bitten by the Vampire Bug ; Vienna's Leopold Museum has invited the public to come in the nude to view an exhibition of erotic works by Austrian masters like Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele The Naked Truth
• · · · · Sarah Weinman All the pleasures and peccadilloes of the literary life Literary scatterbrained smatterings ; Bite sized literary gems for our busy lives
• · · · · · David McCullough loves good stories: Think about that little fifer boy, referring to a 15-year-old who makes a brief appearance in the book. He's going down to the battlefield and then a soldier walks by with a wound on his neck. In his diary, the boy tells how he asks the man if it hurts. To which the soldier replies, 'No, it doesn't hurt; matter offact, soon as I get it tied up I'm going back to fighting.' And the boy says, 'I was never afraidthereafter.’ 1776 and all that ; Between Sex and Power: Family in the World 1900-2000 Retreat of the Male; You'd think something so vital to the planet would be better co-ordinated. Think again Why time is out of sync
