In-depth history of the breaking of the German Enigma code during Word War II.
Warthog »
Michael Yon with the Baltimore ANG in Kandahar. I deployed with them to Iraq in 2007. Fine Americans. As is Mr Yon, for telling theirs and so many other stories.
The Great West Coast Newspaper War »
Two alt-weekly papers duke it out in San Francisco over a dying media format. Comedy.
Reading List
Last book read: The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Very good.
Books on the way: + The Big Short, Michael Lewis. If it was “The Big Phone Book” by Michael Lewis, it would still be on the way. + Shibumi, Trevanian. Meant to read this a long time ago. + Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys, Matt Labash
Books here and waiting, some longer than others: + Empire of the Sun, J.G. Ballard. One of my favorite films of all time. + The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett + Cobra II, Michael Gordon and Bernard Trainor + The Housing Boom and Bust, Thomas Sowell + The Civil War, Vol III: Red River to Appomattox, Shelby Foote + The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer
Why Isn’t Obama Afraid to Take on the Teachers’ Unions? »
There is not much I like about Obama. But if he follows through and tells the teacher’s unions to pound sand, that would be some hope for our nation’s youth.
Michael Lewis’ the Big Short »
Very long excerpt in Vanity Fair. I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time.
NY Time Goes After Scientology »
Two words: utter fraud
Why We Can’t Get Rid of Failing Teachers »
One word: unions
A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades: The Awl »
Stunning, really. The slope of the LA Times line is frightening.
What if Author Bios Were Brutally Honest? »
So true.