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2010
To put it simply, I hate the New Years resolutions crowd. Specifically the people that vow to lose weight and get healthy. There’s no reason why you have to wait until the start of a new year to make changes in your life for the better. These kinds of people usually decide [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Bye for now
This just isn’t fun anymore. I’ve been reading a lot but I find that writing reviews or thinking about reviewing is taking all the fun out of it. I may come back, but if I do it’ll probably be a different kind of blog. I’m leaving the site up and open. [...]
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You can now find me at RuinedbyReading.Net.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Top 10 things to NOT do in a clothing store
1. Don’t unfold shirts you don’t want. Unfolding one shirt to see the style is acceptable. Unfolding every shirt in every color in every size is not.
2. Don’t put your own clothes away. Even if you think you can hand them up nicely, you can’t, and you definitely don’t know how to hand them [...]
Friday Links
I guess I’ve been behind on the times because this has been going on for a week or so, but the White House has an official Flickr account.
Some idiot Saudi judge said that it’s okay if a man hits his wife before she spent too much money. You stay classy, Saudi Arabia. It [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )How to Win a Cosmic War
Title: How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror
Author: Reza Aslan
Pages: 228
Rating: 5/5
How to Win a Cosmic War is both an in-depth study of the ideology fueling al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, and like-minded militants throughout the Muslim world, and an exploration of religious violence in Judaism, Christianity, and [...]
Mumbai
I’m breaking my short hiatus to point you all to this essay about the Mumbai attacks by Arundhati Roy and it totally amazing. She’s one of my favorite authors, and I think she makes a lot of great points. Basically I want to have her brain babies.
Yeah, that’s right. Brain babies.
The first [...]
Best of 2008 TBR List
I’m taking a break from studying and browsing the best of 2008 book lists. It still feels weird to say that it’s 2008. But anyway, ideally I’d like to spend a lot of time reading over my break. I pulled some books from the lists that I want to read (or at [...]
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