Houses Divided

 Most of the houses in my neighborhood are white-light houses, and I have to admit they are lovely, but I was raised in a colored-light family, and I am raising Tom and Jack to be colored-light men, too. They do not take a lot of convincing on this. Boys are naturally colored lighters.

- Michael Kelly. "The Nine Days of Tom and Jack," Washington Post, December 12, 2001

[It was a sad day in the life of the nation and journalism when Michael Kelly passed away.]

Great Films in Black and White: A Series

 

The Marc Andreessen Interview: Blowing the Whistle on the Feds and Artificial Intelligence

 

Great Films in Black and White: A Series

 

#2 Pencil!

 Althouse has a clip of Mike Rowe talking to Joe Rogan about a #2 pencil.

I have never encountered a discussion of a #2 pencil that I didn't like.

Great Films in Black and White: A Series

 

Unusual Reads

• Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
• Legionnaire by Simon Murray
• Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
• Into Africa by Martin Dugard
• The Flame Trees of Thika by Elspeth Huxley

[Photo by M. Zonderling at Unsplash]

Happy Thanksgiving to One and All

 

The New World

 

Business Travel with a New Attitude

My new Substack post is up.

Read it before you go to the airport.