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Probable Futures

Posted on Friday, January 25th, 2019 by Will Cox

“Improbable Futures,” the last chapter in Better to Have Loved (2002), is derived from an interview given by Judith Merril for a documentary six months before h...

Books/politics

Yes, I like The Shire

Posted on Monday, July 30th, 2018 by Will Cox

In his New York Times column last Sunday, Ross Douthat remarked The teenage nerd enters conservatism through either Atlas Shrugged or Lord of the Rings, and bet...

Books/economics

Private Gain at the Public Expense

Posted on Monday, July 23rd, 2018 by Will Cox

We should be on the Appalachian Trail today, but the threat of thunderstorms persuaded me that this week was not the time for a first backpacking trip with the ...

Books

Escapism

Posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2018 by Will Cox

I have not been bored since I learned to read. I would read anything and everything; and what with the public libraries and my family’s collection, I didn...

Books

An End is a Beginning

Posted on Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 by Will Cox

Time passes, and I feel a need to catch up with an old familiar friend. Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) passed on the 22nd. I can’t quite recall if I first ...

Books/economics/Work

Science Fiction was never entirely about The Future

Posted on Sunday, January 28th, 2018 by Will Cox

I’ve been reading stories from the November/December 2017 issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine that I picked up at Barnes & Noble before C...

Books

What I Bought Today

Posted on Thursday, December 7th, 2017 by Will Cox

It makes perfect sense, buying this. Now, this time of year when, more than any other time of year, it’s the time to buy things. It was weird buying this, thoug...

Books/General

First World Problems

Posted on Sunday, December 3rd, 2017 by Will Cox

Despite all evidence to the contrary, it is possible to use adverbs on road signs. This month’s additional practice is to not like anything on the Interne...

Books

More Books Than Time

Posted on Tuesday, November 28th, 2017 by Will Cox

Looking at my shelves lined with books, I know where some of them are from, but not all. The newer purchases have no tangible memory with them. Oh, I know a bit...

Books

Library Hazards

Posted on Monday, November 27th, 2017 by Will Cox

Began work on organizing my collection of fiction today, and am very irritated. One of the cats — I know which one — has taken it upon himself to ur...

Books/rant

My Sons Build Better Box Forts

Posted on Thursday, November 16th, 2017 by Will Cox

My love and I put together the IKEA Billy bookcases for my library last Thursday. They had been occupying the hall, and my books boxes, due to certain logistica...

Books

Dear Diary

Posted on Saturday, August 29th, 2009 by Will Cox

I’m reading George Orwell’s diary and Samuel Pepys’s diary one day at a time in Google Reader, as the entries are published. The two diaries a...

Books/humor

Of the Character of one Mr. Brownlow

Posted on Monday, April 27th, 2009 by Will Cox

From There’s Pippins And Cheese To Come, by Charles S. Brooks (Yale University Press, 1917) By some slim chance, reader, you may be the kind of person who...

Books

Logistical Speculation

Posted on Sunday, March 1st, 2009 by Will Cox

I’ve just started John Keegan’s The First World War, on a topic of which I know little other than the abbreviated, over-simplified summary found in ...

Books

Time to Read

Posted on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 by Will Cox

Ernie says, I’m reading more these days now that I have my Kindle. How does having a Kindle give you more time to read? I’m constantly reading, but ...

Books

Bowdlerization

Posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 by Will Cox

sed -E 's/(dumb|stupid)//g'

Books/economics/transportation

Mice or Men?

Posted on Saturday, October 13th, 2007 by Will Cox

Randall O’Toole‘s latest book, The Best-Laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future argues that...

Books/family

Mad Scientists’ Club

Posted on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 by Will Cox

Who wouldn’t want to be a member? The Bigger Sister is reading well beyond what the schools expect of her, so at the library the other day, I went looking...

Books

Read and Release

Posted on Tuesday, May 11th, 2004 by Will Cox

Read and Release Just released some books in the cafeteria. We’ll see how fast those Wheel of Time novels disappear. And then after the table’s clea...

Books/communication/economics

Posted on Wednesday, February 27th, 2002 by Will Cox

Andrew Sullivan: In fact, I’d argue, blogs could well be a milestone in the long history of journalism. By empowering individual writers, by reducing the ...

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