Grabbing a cup of coffee and waiting for Sunday School to start this morning, Joni and I noticed a “50% off” shelf of books outside the bookstore/coffee bar. I love snooping around in bookstores. Today’s excursion produced this moment of
It Still Comes Down to the Kind of Person You Are
Riding home for a quick lunch yesterday, I heard part of an NPR broadcast, detailing David Hoffman’s book, The Dead Hand. A correspondent for the Washington Post, Hoffman has chronicled Cold War relations between the then Soviet Union and the
The Troubling Use of “Information”
For some time I’ve noticed a perplexing quality of college student word use. Here are a couple of examples: “I have to miss class tomorrow and I was wondering if I could get the information that you’re going to cover.”