Necessary Roughness

I finished reading On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Well by William Zinsser yesterday. It won’t be the last time I read it.

This week I stayed at the Hilton Lafayette and Towers in Lafayette, LA. The hotel is quite familiar: I must have spent over 3 months in total nights there last year.

…as in Crying Over You.
The Guardian reports that Oliver Stone believes his Alexander movie didn’t do well because of “raging fundamentalism in morality” and that people couldn’t deal with “an action-hero who was masculine/feminine.”
So why did Oliver Stone make this movie? Did he not know his audience? Let’s suppose, for a minute, that his actual [...]

Some years back, a cousin of my wife had car trouble and had asked us for monetary help in getting a rental until the car was fixed. Rather than fork over the money, I instead offered the use of my car, which I wasn’t using while I was on business trips.

During our house’s power outage, I took the time to read a book I would not have normally read. I wasn’t initially enthusiastic about reading this book because most books about a living politician tend to be either fluff or hit pieces.
Thankfully Bob Woodward plays it straight in Bush At War and includes information about [...]