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This is a superb book. The sub-title is "Investing by Knowing What Others Don’t" and it is the best book I’ve read on investing and asset managment in years. The author is Kenneth Fisher, an investment manager based in California, who also writes a monthly column in Forbes magazine. He’s a pretty successful guy, ranked…

Here’s a really fine essay on King’s famous speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in August, 1963 (44 years ago this August!). It’s short so hit the link and read the whole thing. The Power of Dreams OpinionJournal – Taste There is no gainsaying King’s natural gifts. But King’s speech didn’t just bubble…

N.T. Wright is the Anglican Bishop of Durham, England. He is also a biblical scholar of high note, with several well-received books on Jesus. Christianity Today had a very fine interview with him that you can read in full here: Mere Mission | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction Your book Simply Christian…

I came across this book while reading a review for another book on amazon.com. The subtitle to Body for Life is "12 weeks to Mental and Physical Strength", and it’s written by a professional trainer named Bill Phillips. The book and program (they have a big website operation) seems to be wildly popular; there were…

The Catholic Church tries to be consistent across a broad range of life and social justice activities – in theory. As often as not though, it’s Evangelicals who do the better job of spelling out a "consistent ethic of life". Here’s an article in Christianity Today weaving together respect for prenatal life, and a proper…

My friendship with John Brown goes all the way back to my first year living in Jamaica – we met in September of 1977. He taught biology at Clarendon College, a school way off in the bush, compared to the town of Mandeville, where I lived. I met him because he was also a rugby…

Because I want to be fair and balanced – I don’t want any perception that I only post mediocre jokes at the expense of Clinton and Kerry – here’s an amusing bumper sticker I spotted a couple of days ago: FRODO FAILED    Bush Has the Ring 

My friend Paul Novotny read this book and passed it on to me. The Language of God is a pretty quick read; less then 300 pages long. It is excellent. The author is Francis S. Collins, a physician and geneticist who is the head of the Human Genome Project, which finished a draft of the…

It turns out that not every leftist is thrilled with Obama. Here’s an opinion piece written by liberal columnist Froma Harrop (a Maureen Dowd clone, judging by her humor). She’s not too impressed. RealClearPolitics – Articles – Obama Scores as Exotic Who Says Nothing Obama’s appeal comes not from the things he says, but from…

As all Christmas’s should be, it was a great day. It started later then we expected, at 7:18AM when Tim came in (he announced the time) and told us “there were a lot of presents”. We’d been up until almost 3AM. Brigid went with Tim to the back room and there was a very large…