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I think Edwards's endorsement of Obama will help with the Reagan Democrats, assuming he needs that help. I agree with Sparkchaser that the Hillary supporters will be more likely to vote for Obama than McCain. They've seen with the current administration that if they vote their "values" rather...

Not really. It seemed to be set pretty much in the real world.

I've bought some of the Laura Joh Rowland Sano Ichiro novels and have some fantasy series I'm watching at eBay as a result of reading some of these threads. And Collapse came off the "to read" pile and is being read.

What do you think of the way that schools react to finding that students have written fantasies about killing their schoolmates and blowing up the school? Seems as though many school authorities feel that that's often a precursor to enacting the fantasy.

Probably not, but the lack of one is still very significant, IMO. Considering his global-warming credentials, he must have been appalled by her support for a gas tax holiday.

They certainly aren't, especially after Edwards's endorsement of Obama. She was supposed to be the candidates the Edwards supporters would favour, but after he endorsed Obama there's a question mark there as well. And Al Gore's silence has been quite deafening. The Clinton VP not saying...

I often have partly finished books sitting in different rooms in the house. It saves having to carry a book around with me.:D

A man had offended the king, and was sentenced to death. "Oh your majesty!" he pleaded. "Allow me but one year, and I will teach your horse to talk." Astonished, the king agreed. The man's friend took him aside and asked, "why did you make such a foolish promise?" The man shrugged. "In a...

Some publishers have relied on spell checkers and other automatic proofreading aids for a while now. Some aren't even using copyeditors. Apparently it's considered that the money is better spent in advertising and design than in editing and proofreading. I assume that with so much...

I've never been able to see her spinning clockwise, except in that drawing where the extra lines have been added.

You're lucky that you can read in the car. I get sick if I try to read while travelling. It makes long plane trips very boring. Reading in the bath is luxurious. Definitely agree with debee on that one.

There's the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony, which is a series of seven (actually there now seems to be an eighth one) novels which each focus on aspects of life such as death, time, good, and evil, which are embodied by humans who become immortal. The books about good and...

Like others, I found Guns Germs and Steel to be very thought-provoking. I also remember that the short book Via Dolorosa by David Hare had a great impact on me from the point of view that I'd always hoped there could be a peaceful solution in the Middle East and that book pretty much showed that...

The Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey has heralds with connections to their Companions, which are sort of horses but not exactly, as well as the Tayledras (nomadic magi) who have bondbirds. Some of the later books also introduce firecats, which are sort of a feline equivalent to Companions but...

Might take a while, because I've got work deadlines. But I'm persevering. I've read the first 100 pages so it shouldn't take more than about six months...:D

I know the time limit is 15 minutes. I was asking for it to be extended a bit. I don't want to bother the mods every time I want to edit a post, but it just struck me that 15 minutes is overkill if the problem is that you don't want to have malcontents deleting all their old posts.

Speaking of editing posts (continuing a conversation from the previous page), I just went back to one of my posts after 20 minutes and couldn't edit it. Would it be too much to ask for the limit to be extended to a couple of hours or something? This is a forum for people who really appreciate...

I'm reading Jared Diamond's book Collapse, having just finished Tim Heald's biography of Princess Margaret and a book about 19th and 20th century Japan. I enjoyed The Third Chimpanzee when I read it a few years ago; I'm glad you're enjoying it, silverseason.

I find the emotional manipulations that led to the murder to be fascinating as well as horrifying. I don't find it easy to watch, but I must say Shakespeare knew how to get under people's skin. I remember watching the San Francisco Ballet version of Othello, and the scene where he finally...

It's always been one of my favourites, and it's grounded in at least some degree of historical truth. Like King Lear, Othello, and Hamlet, it's unsparing in its emotional power. It really impresses me that a person who could write this sort of thing was also such a master at the art of light comedy.