Life on the RoadIt can be tough spending the post holiday in Montreal. Here’s to a Happy 2008.

Book NotesNorman Leavitt deconstructs Steve Fuller.

Teresa Nielsen Hayden reminds us, this Christmas, of how important language is and why it is so much fun to trace its evolution: Luke 2:1-14, Anglo-Saxon (via): Soþlice on þam dagum wæs geworden gebod fram þam casere Augusto, þæt eall ymbehwyrft wære tomearcod. Þeos tomearcodnes wæs æryst geworden fram þam deman Syrige Cirino. And ealle… Continue reading

Best wishes to all this Christmas, 2007.

This Christmas, it seems, life is not so good at the Origin: Israel cannot afford to lose the Palestinian Christians: They have long represented a moderating force. A century ago, they accounted for 25% or more of the Holy Land population. Today, they represent less than 1.5%. Since 2000, Bethlehem alone has lost 10% of… Continue reading