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I used to to be Oriental until I was told that the politically correct term is Asian — now I have become dis-oriented.

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Recent Posts

  • Weneke's Wheel Tax Revisited- Podzimek's Folly
  • A Year in Provence, Peter Mayle
  • Generation Kill, Evan Wright
  • Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
  • Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times, by George Crile
  • 21: Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas for Millions, Ben Mezrich
  • Washington's God, Religion, Liberty and the Father of our Country, Michael Novak and Jana Novak
  • Ducks Hanging in the Window
  • Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot, Starr Smith and Walter Cronkite
  • Segway — Nothing New Under the Sun
  • Google

Book Reviews

  • Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot, Starr Smith and Walter Cronkite
  • World Without End, Ken Follet
  • Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10, Marcus Luttrell
  • Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different, Gordon S. Wood
  • The Few, The American "Knights of the Air" Who Risked Everything To Fight In The Battle of Britain, Alex Kershaw
  • Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer
  • Fallen Founder — The Life of Aaron Burr, Nancy Isenberg
  • Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue, Robert Drury and Tom Clavin
  • The Spy Next Door: The Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Damaging FBI Agent in U.S. History, Elaine Shannon and Ann Blackman
  • The First World War, John Keegan
  • Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution, Mark Puls
  • Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King, Antonia Fraser
  • Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45, Barbara W. Tuchman
  • The Children's Blizzard, David Laskin
  • The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution, David Quammen
  • Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters, Dick Winters and Cole C. Kingseed
  • The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities--From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums, Peter Watson, Cecelia Todeschini
  • The Puzzle Palace: Inside America's Most Secret Intelligence Organization, James Bamford
  • The Prince, Niccolo Machiavellli
  • Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring, Alexander Rose
  • Amish Confidential: The Bishop's Son Shatters the Silence, Chris Burkholder
  • Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America, Mark R. Levin
  • The Guns of August, Barbara W. Tuchmann
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
  • Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos, Seth Lloyd
  • Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, Donald Knuth
  • Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad, Robert Asahina
  • Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Lynne Truss
  • Washington's Crossing, David Hackett Fischer
  • Photographer's Guide to the Grand Canyon and Northern Arizona, Joseph K. Lange

Blogroll

  • Scott's Space
    My friend Scott who inspired me to start blogging.
  • Craig's World
    My friend Craig who was blogging before blogging became cool.
  • Creating Passionate Users
    My friends, Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates (The Head First folks) eclecteic, challenging, smart and interesting.
  • Krusty Konservative
    An insider's view of the sometimes byzantine world of Iowa politics and the Iowa Caucuses. Krusty is funny and connected. The big question of course is who is Krusty?