Day: October 28, 2006
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Ninety minutes of voting not enough
I spent 90 minutes doing my civic duty with the absentee ballot this evening, and I’m not quite done. While I’m not going to share my votes, I will say that the lingering indecision is on Proposition 87 (the tax on California oil production to spur alternative energy sources) and on the competing (?) flood…
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Book: The Twenty-One Balloons
On Monday morning, I had finished my previous book and was “stranded” on the plane without anything else to read, I raided the boy’s backpack for one of his new birthday gifts: The Twenty-One Balloons. What a fun tale. Written in 1947 by William Pène du Bois, Twenty-One Balloons won a Newberry Medal the following…
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Book: The Mark of the Assassin
Daniel Silva wrote The Mark of the Assassin in 1998. This book is pretty much your standard terrorist/spy thriller, but not crafted like Robert Ludlum at his best. Reminder: ignore Ludlum’s current re-incarnation (literally, since he’s dead) as a “brand” for new novels. Mark of the Assassin was Silva’s second novel. If you followed that…