To commemorate the occasion, a “Top 10 Books The Nation Can’t Live Without” list has been compiled. Tolkien and Harry Potter have beat the Bible. And I’m currently reading, and very much enjoying, the second half of #8. The top ten are as follows: 1) Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen 20% 2) Lord of…

Tropical Storm Ernesto is ruining Labor Day plans. I offer the following quote from The Five Orange Pips, a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.“All day the wind had screamed and the rain had beaten against the windows, so that even here in the heart of great, hand-made London we were forced to…

Solidarity for Pluto Let’s all show our solidarity for pluto by shaving our heads, thus turning them into little planetoid-esque balls. If you can’t do that, raise a fist to show solidarity for our dissed little “dwarf” planet.