Global Election Mania 2024!!

Come one, come all! It’s that magical time once more! It’s election season!!  There’s about 20-odd Presidential elections and nearly 40 general (national elections set to take place around the world this year – 2024.  (That’s of course not to even try and count the elections of various types from Mayors to MLA’s to Alderman…

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness [Magrathea Publishing, 2020

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson This book was presented to me by a well-wisher who I consider a very smart and practical person – it was intended I think as a kind of advice and guidance book when I had gone to them in a time…

Bloganuary writing prompt

I read. I watch. I write. I draw. I play board games and spend time with the very few people I like. That is all.

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! [Penguin Portfolio, 2007]

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain! by Scott Adams For anyone who’s been completely oblivious to certain aspects of pop-culture these past couple of decades, Scott Adams was the tweaked, odd and very clever mind behind the Dilbert comic strip that has become the epitome of satire on corporate culture. In addition he wrote the…

Less [2017, Lee Boudreaux Books]

Less by Andrew Sean Greer The gentle little tale recounting the journey of Arthur Less has turned out to be one of the most surprising and enjoyable reads of the year for me by far and away. I am going to try to review it as best I can but it will be a bit…

Free Will by Sam Harris [Free Press, 2012]

Free Will by Sam Harris A short, fast read that is at the same time, light but dense. This is not a big, mind-bending book but a short, precise book with a very precise point to make and it most definitely does that. Personally, I gave it a shot because generally I find Harris to…