Believe It or Not
One of "my" colleges (both as a student and as a teacher) recently gave out a prize for the best fourth novel!
Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Gene,
ReplyDeleteYou've already written one novel, right? So all you have to do is write a second, third, and forth one between now and July, and you'll be eligible.
Well, I need to really rush, because it's July, 2009.
ReplyDeleteApparently, they wanted to give an award to some guy who was going to give a talk at St. Francis, and he had just published his fourth book, so it was a good way to direct the award his way.
Like the "help wanted: engineer" ads that detail desired experience and education so precisely that -what do you know?! only one person in the world fits.
ReplyDeleteThey used to have a lot of those in the detroit papers. Back in the days of help wanted ads and automotive engineers.
Like the "help wanted: engineer" ads that detail desired experience and education so precisely that -what do you know?! only one person in the world fits.
ReplyDeleteThey used to have a lot of those in the detroit papers. Back in the days of help wanted ads and automotive engineers.
Argosy, I believe that profession still exists in Japan and Korea.
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