Where I spent my money

I buy and read a lot of books. I buy books because they look like they’ll contain interesting historical biographical information,…

Google Books Notification

Last week, Scott Gant, an author (also a lawyer), filed an objection to the Google Books Settlement.Â His objection is very interesting;…

I’ve fielded a few e-mails about the bookmarks I was giving away at Nationals.Â Here they are: And just because that doesn’t…

The serial comma is the final comma between a list of items.Â A serial comma-ist may write something like: I went to the store and got …

So, there’s a discussion on Smart Bitches about what things an author can and can’t say online, and at what point people…

So I’m getting my official photo taken today.Â I really hate getting my picture taken.Â Part of the problem is that when I was…

This is what I had hoped to see on Day One. It pays few political dividends.Â It doesn’t jumpstart the economy or do anything to…

Even though I don’t list it in my tongue-in-cheek biography, I am a lawyer–even though I am not now a practicing lawyer.Â …

I’m officially announcing that I’ve redone my website! As 2009 approached, and I realized I was going to have published…

It is the political season, and in some sense, it feels very strange to let that time go by without comment on this blog.Â That is because–I…