Daily Archives: 28 January 2010

Salinger Dead, Caulfield at Rest

I do not know why Mark David Chapman and Arthur Bremer were so obsessed with Catcher in the Rye, nor why it was consistently among the top ten most censored books in America. But there you have it. Continue reading

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Why I Initially Backed John Edwards: Nukes

If we don’t want the terrorists getting their hands on nuclear materials (and we’ve shown that a “dirty” bomb is effective, too, you don’t need fissionable or fissile material in quantity sufficient to make an IAD — Improvised Atomic Device — to be a nuclear terrorist), then WHY THE HELL DO WE WANT TO BUILD MORE NUCLEAR PLANTS? Continue reading

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