... was a little shout-out to Marjorie Liu. It made me smile, anyway, to think it might be. More Thoughts on Just One of the Guys You may have noticed that that particular review is a bit of a stylistic ... of the paperback section before it dawned on me that THIS IS THE NEW ONE AND I DON'T HAVE IT YET!! D'oh! Scattered thoughts, people, I'm telling you. Anyway, I started it today and ...

You will have to forgive me if I am a bit scattered this morning, as it is currently 8:15 on the morning after the Yankees won their 27th Championship. This should not be a surprising outcome- The Yankees established themselves ... closer. You simply can not count on him in a big spot, and marquee failures are scattered along his track record. Ryan Howard has put up some mammoth numbers the past ...

... , and generally dismiss liberals as soft-headed Utopians. But in so many ways, political conservatism is Utopianism for the powerful…. TNC’s post is a more thoughtful post than I can manage, but I still have some thoughts banging around in my head, that I feel compelled to blog. Like TNC, I wouldn’t use the word “bigot” here. But I’m not surprised that many ...

Caught up on a show I had missed while back home last week and then this week's episode. There is a young woman on the show who has breast implants. There's no mistaking it, and she is open about it as this is an MTV show. She was wearing a tight, low cut tank top and they looked awful. It was as if she lost so much bodyf at for the competition that it was just skin around the implant. ...

I think the following view is right: IKSE: p is part of S's evidence if S knows p non-inferentially. Not only do I think that it's right, I think it's pretty harmless. If S knows p non-inferentially, S's belief that p is the case is non-inferentially justified. So, if we can show that IJSE is true, we can show that IKSE is true: IJSE: If S's belief that p is non- ...

Things are going fairly well here. My mom left early this morning, so we're on our own!!! I'm very nervous to be left alone with the two boys. It scares me to have to watch and take care of both of them. I just am not sure how well I'm going to spread between them. It was so nice to have my mom here!! I haven't had to worry about making any meals, cleaning anything, ...

Okay, it’s had some time to sink in, I’ve read all the fevered comments on Puck-Rakers and elsewhere. I guess I haven’t moved far off my position from this morning — this is not a good situation for the Blue Jackets, but I still think it’s not the end of the world. Mostly because I do believe that at some point between now and 2011, Filatov is going to want to try ...

-The weather is always beautiful on they day I choose to NOT go running -I am so bent on feeling like I am accomplishing things that often times I make a to-do list after I have already made it in my head, completed all the tasks, and moved on with my life. Just so I can look at each one, check it off, and say, “Yeah. I did ALL that.” -I had my advisees over last night. They ...

I can hardly believe that it has been a month since my last post. Where has the blogger gone? Not that I ever really considered myself a blogger, but seriously, I can do better than this. The truth is that life is plain busy. Somehow, in a un-Maren way, I've managed to get involved in too many crafts. This isn't entirely unlike me, but the problem is, that my recent crafts have deadlines. ...

1. OK, so who at Sunkist thought a product placement in Precious was a good idea? It's there twice: once as a can next to Precious's abusive mother as she hunkers in her gloomy apartment, then again as the label across the drink machine at the welfare office. Peculiarly, Mariah Carey's character comes back with two cans of fake-label soda, drawing all the more attention to the product ...