One of the plus sides to all that time spent in airports was that I got to read some books. On Friday I purchased and read The Tipping Point, then on the way home I had Conspiracy of Fools (written by Kurt Eichenwald, a reporter with the New York Times.) Conspiracy of Fools was great, particularly in how it describes what happens when the venal are not restrained by calmer heads.
And tonight, I'm baking a strawberry-rhubarb pie. Hopefully it'll be good.
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Tipping Point: good, maybe life-changing.
Blink: not so good.
Freakonomics: I hear it's quite good.
On my reading list: the complete Sherlock Holmes; Patterson's America's Struggle with poverty in the XXth Century; and Black Brothers, Inc. (about Philadelphia's notorious Black Mafia, a shady organization dating back to the 1960s with ties to the Nation of Islam, to powerful members in the black community, to numerous murders, beatings, and burnings over the years in their campaign of "protection," intimidation, drug-smuggling and influence-peddling; and a surprising (to some) connection to the 2003-to-present Pay to Play scandal which so influenced the 2003 mayoral election.)
Also, Dr. Tatiana's Sex Advice to All Creation, but that's more of a lark. After all, how could it be timely or relevant to discover that cannibalism, spouse-murder, cloning, homosexuality, and sex practices bizarre almost beyond human comprehension are routine and natural in the animal and plant and other kingdoms?
After all... we're not Animals, are we? Two legs good, four legs bad!
(watching my kitten trying to bite her own rear toes. more successful than the tail-chasing project)
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