Author: Peony Moss

Announcement and Question Box for Chapters 7-12

For next Friday: Chapters 7-12. Questions on these chapters may be posted here. I can also send an email notification when each week’s discussion post goes up. If you’d like this, please let me know.

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Comments policy

When we first installed comments, we considered posting a comments policy. We had seen the combativeness, flame wars and general nastiness that sometimes cropped up at other blogs, and we didn’t want that for our blog. We figured there were plenty of other places for those who liked that kind of combat to fight their… Continue reading Comments policy

Blog decor

I was fooling around with graphics and came up with a button for the group read: Help yourself to the image if you’d like to put it on your blog — just put link tags around the img src code to link it back to the group read. Please drop me an email if you… Continue reading Blog decor

Lileks on the Counterculture

Heard a John Kerry speech today: ended with “Purple Haze”, I think. As a Hendrix tune for the campaign, it’s better than “Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire,” which would be the most inapt Kerry tune imaginable. He has no fire. He wouldn’t catch fire if you doused him in kerosene and shot Roman… Continue reading Lileks on the Counterculture

The Virtue of Courtesy

We are obliged to keep our credit cards immaculate out of deference to sensitive machinery. But when it comes to human interaction, at least in the popular style exhibited on the immensely successful “Jerry Springer Show,” gross insensitivity to other people’s feelings is the order of the day….

St Blog Awards

Time to vote! Thanks to Alicia for the heads up — and congratulations to her on her nomination. And thanks to whoever nominated us!