A World of Speculation

Modifications done

Several hours later, the modifications to the Blogger template are done. That’s the Hwy. 101 bridge at Newport, Oregon, in the upper-left corner, instead of the generic Maine lighthouse. The rocks in the lower right are Blogger rocks, but they look a little like...

Raise it up to throw it down to raise it up again

Thomas at Endlessly Rocking has helpfully posted a paragraph that leads into something I wanted to think some more about. [The Declaration of Independence] is our charter of liberty, and the Constitution is a workaday framework for daily governance crafted in...

More abandoned buildings

Kate from Saskatchewan has photos of an abandoned store. You know how I love abandoned buildings, especially shelves of spices and canned goods black and rusted with long disuse.

The Literary agent as institution

“Publishers, reports The New York Times, are ‘not overfond’ of the wheelings and dealings of agents: ‘They say he has been of advantage to the few writers of the first class, having made their work much more expensive, while he has been the...

New at the Onion Dome

The Onion Dome: Orthodox News with a Twist is up again this week. Here are the headlines: The monks of Mount Athos are protesting the reunification talks between “the Church Overseas of Russian Orthodox Christians (COROC) and the Patriarchate of Moscow, St....