Puffin’s Place

I’ll be returning to this blog regularly very shortly, but did want to jump in for a couple of quick thoughts.
Reading Christpher Hitchens’ God is Not Great recently and want to share a delicious last line: “We have first to transcend our prehistory, and escape the gnarled hands which reach out to drag us back [...]

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Next to having a terrific new president, one of the nicest things is to find a cell phone salesman from Wales who has a gorgeous voice and is appreciated by the Britain’s Got Talent audience and judges.
Check this out. Paul Potts.

What do you think?
Follow his career here.

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Remember Arthur Koestler’s 40’s novel, Darkness at Noon? A recovering communist, Koestler looks at Stalin’s purges and the show trials of Moscow in which what today would be called “persons of interest” confess to multiple political sins.
I am reminded of this time and this book when I hear the  morbid confessions of McCain and Obama [...]

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I am currently reading Craig Unger’s The Fall of the House of Bush, and I recommend it highly. And not just to those of us who deem GWB scum.
Unger, who also wrote House of Bush, House of Saud, is a liberal journalist who has had his battles but over-all presents some of the clearest and [...]

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I stole the title of this post from a sweatshirt I saw recently. Seemed fitting
If you are interested in any of the following, you will admire and enjoy James Lipton’s, Inside Inside [The Actors Studio]: excellent writing, acting as a craft, James Lipton’s unexpectedly—to me—intriguing life, the genesis of the Pivot questionnaire, a sprinkling of [...]

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