28 November 2004

Today's reading list

  • Beyond "The Da Vinci Code": What is the Priory of Sion?
  • Isaac Newton in the Kitchen
  • Shock and Awe In the Senate
  • One gulp, and Bush was gone
  • Beyond "The Da Vinci Code": What is the Priory of Sion?
  • [ via Beyond "The Da Vinci Code": What is the Priory of Sion? ]

    Massimo Introvigne looks at the information on the Priory of Sion presented as fact in the introduction of The Da Vinci Code [Amazon].

  • Isaac Newton in the Kitchen
  • [ via Arts & Letters Daily -> The New York Times ]

    Harold McGee, the author of the science-based cookbook On Food and Cooking [Amazon], readies a second edition.

  • Shock and Awe In the Senate
  • [ via MSNBC ]

    George Will supports filibusters as an important defense of minority rights, enabling democratic government to measure and respect not merely numbers but also intensity in public controversies.

  • One gulp, and Bush was gone
  • [ via Guardian Unlimited ]

    Sidney Blumenthal comments on the base actions of George W. Bush and Karl Rove at the Clinton dedication. They include such quizzical quotes as this from Rove: I change constitutions, I put churches in schools ... from Bush: A submarine could take this place out and how Bush tried to push his way past Clinton at the library door to be first in line, against the already accepted protocol for the event.

[ posted by sstrader on 28 November 2004 at 3:04:48 PM in Today's reading list ]