“Atheism does not bother me even a little bit. Stupidity does. Laziness does. Treating cultures and civilizations as though history began last Thursday—or some weekend 40 years ago when teen-aged you decided you didn’t feel like going to church with your parents—does.” - Kevin Williamson
Nice 10K at the Len Fisher Bridge Run in Delaware, Ohio. Happy with my pace despite a late night and a beer watching a buddy play music at the local watering hole. Beautiful sunrise 🏃
My Apple Watch died the last two times I ran, including last night’s club run, so decided to run in today’s beautiful sunshine. Running a 10K on Saturday. 🏃
My coworker is soaking in the sunshine ☀️
Finished reading: Final Spin by Jocko Willink 📚 // grabbed this at the library yesterday and finished it last night. Quick engaging read, which is what I needed.
In ‘Buyer’s Market,’ Tuition Increases Haven’t Outpaced Inflation
I started my book blog, Collected Miscellany, twenty years ago. Now I don’t know what to do with it. Any ideas?
Pet peeve of mine: every time I buy something getting an email survey 😞
My run club had our Halloween run last night people had trouble guessing my costume but it was easy to run 🏃in 😄
Gorgeous sunrise this morning
“The idea that there’s just tens of millions of Americans who want a woman to have a baby then don’t support the government making it easier to raise that child finds no support in this data.” - Ryan Burge
Thanks for the sticker @jean
Ran my first official half marathon on Sunday. Had a great experience and was pleased with my time. 🏃 13.1
Currently reading: Effective Data Storytelling by Brent Dykes 📚
Finished reading: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 📚 // A hard book to rate and review. The language was spare and at times beautiful. It was full of powerful emotions and thoughts of how all easy answers breakdown at the extremes. But I was also left wondering what it was all about exactly? Just the above? Perhaps my literary sensibility is not deep enough to appreciate a book where all is bleak and the world is ending and yet I was hoping for a little more direction, a little more purpose to the story.
“We’re all Cotton Mather in the long term, and we’re Hunter Biden in the short term.” - Kevin Williamson
Nerd alert! Picked up this bundle from Liberty Fund. Now just need to find time to read them…
Finished reading: King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger Lancelyn Green 📚 // I enjoyed reading this version after having read The Once and Future King. This seemed more in the romance-in the older sense-category that T.H. White.
Book Banning and a Sane World
“In a sane world, the term “ban” would be reserved for books whose sale and circulation are illegal in some given place, and “censorship” would refer to the removal, by some legal or commercial authority, of certain portions of a text or film or recording. (I say “commercial” authority because sometimes companies that own the rights to works of art decide, without legal pressure, to delete some lyrics in a song or change certain words in a book.) But thanks to people who want to smear their RCOs, it is now common to use precisely the same words to describe (a) what the nation of Iran did to Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses and (b) a polite letter from a parent to a school librarian asking that books that offer anatomically detailed descriptions of sexual practices not be readily available to third graders. Of course, many concerned parents are not polite, but polite letters on this topic still count, for the ALA, as a “challenge,” and the organization defines a challenge as an attempt at censorship or banning.” Alan Jacobs
Celebrating Ohio Pint Day 2023 🍺
Want to read: The Road by Cormac McCarthy 📚
“Sen. Lee knows the U.S. flag when he sees it. If he knows U.S. interests when he sees them, then he should grow up and act like it. The world has enough Twitter trolls already.” - Kevin Williamson
Sorry, I can’t seem to find how to easily cross post to WordPress. Can you point me to something? @help
I love how easy it is to blog using micro.blog but there is one small problem… I don’t really think I have an audience at this point. Only traffic at collectedmiscellany.com is random Google searches.
Finished reading: Musical Tables by Billy Collins 📚