Instinctively, I thought the name Phoenix came from the heat. Visiting in mid-March for Spring Training, the heat turns out to be not too bad,…
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Instinctively, I thought the name Phoenix came from the heat. Visiting in mid-March for Spring Training, the heat turns out to be not too bad,…
Phineas Finn, the second of the Palliser/Parliamentary novels repeats many of the virtues and vices of the first of the series, Can You Forgive Her,…
I finally got around to the memoir by Scott Bradlee that first interested me in Postmodern Jukebox. Outside the Jukebox is worthy both an autobiography…
Against some expectations after the trades of Gerrit Cole and Andrew McCutcheon in the off-season, the Pirates pleasantly surprised with an 83-79 record in 2018.…
The financial crisis was made possible in part thanks to the privatization of gains, and socialization of losses. Bank executives could lever up balance sheets…
TheRinger has a great oral history of Rounders. This was for a while a movie that had a pretty big influence on my leisure time,…
The habit of separating ecclesiastical history from secular history has tended to make everything ecclesiastical appear more rarefied than it really is. It is only…
Prep is a 2005 coming-of-age bildungsroman by Curtis Sittenfeld about a “LMK” (Lower Middle Class) girl from Indiana who goes to the prestigious Groton…I mean…
This is a Library of Congress record of a pardon by James Madison. It was for a slave in the District of Columbia, on a case Madison…