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So you just got here and you want to know who the crab dip is? If I tell you, I will get in trouble. The cheese, as we all know, stands alone.

SFG, why take such umbrage? How can you take such positions on a text you haven't even read? Coughing up a bunch of quotes from third-rate study guides is intellectually bankrupt, in the first place, but to put the whole hodgepodge forth as some kind of grounded opinion is just silly. For...

It’s clear to me that you didn’t read the book. Perhaps just the beginning? Try to refrain from surfing around and gleaning other peoples’ ideas to substitute for your own lack. :) (That is the right place to put a smiley, isn't it?) Also, you are missing the most basic point. To say this: He...

What the . . .? Oh, SFG, I disagree with the entirety of this post. First, Ramsey is not a ‘warts and all kind of guy.’ He’s the hero of the story. Haven’t you read the whole book? He walks like a god among everyone at the house, and they all project their insecurities and desires onto him...

Well, I just happened to read his autobiography recently, and Franklin was not born a Quaker and never was a Quaker, despite being on the Quaker oatmeal label (which I'm sure he wouldn't mind, as it is an economical and nutritious food). I love his autobiography. It neatly dispenses with the...

First, what is politics? Political theory is mostly intellectual masturbation. I think the most interesting and true political insight does not come from political treatises, which have almost no relationship to reality, but from history, particularly the true dealings of individuals, not the...

Gawd, SFG, it's a short story that was published in The New Yorker (which you say you subscribe to) and was linked to on this site by me, in some thread about actual reading.

William Manchester's The Last Lion is considered definitive and a classic. It's a series of two books, going to 1940, with a third expected to make a trilogy. Manchester is very old now, and he's enlisted the aid of a coauthor for the third book in the series, but the first two have been out for...

Sane people --like you, samerron--deserve to live in peace. In a war that has no real beginning or end, where can you lay the blame? The only hope is fostering peace through counsel and personal restraint. I think it's part of some cultures to identify themselves as the permanently and...

Well, these are all different and I don't have time for reviews and comments, but I would say: The Memory of Running The Secret Life of Bees Bird by Bird There are comments on this site about all of these.

I'm not sure I can think of 10, and I'm also not certain they're all from the 90s, but here's my list: The Usual Suspects Reversal of Fortune Hunt for Red October Unforgiven The Madness of King George Henry V possibly: Saving Private Ryan (if only Ed Burns wasn't in it...

In the US, the Patrick Melrose trilogy was published as one volume, called Some Hope. I think that's a brilliant book. Of the three stories in the trilogy, the first is my favorite, then the second, then the third. Sorry, but I forget the subtitles. The first is set in France (as is Mother's...

I finished Mother’s Milk by Edward St. Aubyn a few weeks ago. I hesitated to review it immediately, as I was not sure that my assessment was fully formed. While I love St. Aubyn’s writing—it’s full of unexpected sharp observations and funny self-reflection—this story didn’t appeal to me...

Oh, no, crickey. It was Aramaic, not English, wasn't it? The closest surviving tongue of which, Syriac, is on the verge of being wiped out by the present factional wars in Iraq. Hmmmm. Who do you think has more in common with Jesus - - I mean Yahweh - -- the average Iraqi or the average American?

In the holy sense, my stigmata have nothing to do with the long-dead white guy who lived in the middle east and apparently spoke the Queen's English. My fingers are totally holy in their own right, and my stigmata are the true signs of their holiness.

I've always volunteered at my son's school for whatever's going on. This year I did the theater group plus some chaperoning, but I used to tutor reading and do more literacy-oriented stuff and science field trips. I also volunteer in various capacities for the local land trust (I founded an...

Okay, let's talk about words. How do you say 'often'?

There are six or seven definitions of rock--knowing one definition doesn't nullify the others, does it, fishy?

Thanks, sirmyk. You saved me from posting a harsh comment, like "didn't you read the post above with the definition?" or, "why do I feel like I'm talking to a goldfish?"

Well, in a way you're right. It only happens to really holy people. I'm totally holy.