Though I couldn't find the movie playing anywhere near my home, I was delighted to spot a companion book that I wasn't aware of during a recent trip to the bookstore. It was nice to finally get an up to date and unbiased read on the scientific findings regarding global warming. Yes I said unbiased. It's high time people stopped trying to politicize this issue and started trying to do something about it...   more »

After a week of struggling I have finally managed to finish reading Thomas Ricks excellent account FIASCO -- The American Military Adventure in Iraq. I struggled, in part because I've been so sick, but mostly it would take an average of 10 pages for me to get so furious, or so disheartened, or otherwise upset that I would have to put the book down and pick it up later on. Ricks account of this war is not an easy read. Nor should it be. But having finished it I say that without a doubt all Americans have a civic duty to read this book and understand the nature of this war. Like it or not...   more »