Monthly Archives: January 2021

Book Review: Echidnas

Posted on January 26, 2021 by nathanalbright

Echidnas, by Lola M. Schaefer This book about echidnas is part of a series about tiny-spiny animals. And if an animal belonged in the category of tiny and spiny, it was certainly the obscure echidna, which is my second favorite … Continue reading →

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When A Continent Rides The Struggle Bus

Posted on January 25, 2021 by nathanalbright

While I was looking for books on another subject, I noticed that four different accounts of the proceedings of the House Committee on International Relations over the past two decades featured the word struggle in them. All four were connected … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Struggle For Civil Society In Egypt

Posted on January 25, 2021 by nathanalbright

The Struggle For Civil Society In Egypt, by the U.S. Congress In 2014, in the aftermath of the supposed Arab Spring, the House of Representatives’ Committee on International Relations spent some time talking about the struggle for civil society in … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Nigeria’s Struggle With Corruption

Posted on January 25, 2021 by nathanalbright

Nigeria’s Struggle With Corruption, by the U.S. Congress This is difficult to think of a more hypocritical and self-serving phenomenon than seeing corrupt members of Congress whose public service turns them from upper middle class people to extremely wealthy elites … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Algeria’s Struggle Against Terrorism

Posted on January 25, 2021 by nathanalbright

Algeria’s Struggle Against Terrorism, by the U.S. Congress This book is a short work of about 50 pages that provides the text of a Congressional hearing in 2005 on Algeria and it’s titular struggle against terrorism that resulted from a … Continue reading →

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Measure For Measure

Posted on January 24, 2021 by nathanalbright

Matthew 7:1 is among the most misquoted scriptures in the entire Bible, and that is saying something. The passage in which this verse appears, which takes in the first five verses of the third and final chapter of the Sermon … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Boys In The Trees

Posted on January 24, 2021 by nathanalbright

Boys In The Trees: A Memoir, by Carly Simon This book, which is a sizable memoir at more than 350 pages, is all the more telling because it only covers the first 35 years of the author’s life. It has … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir

Posted on January 24, 2021 by nathanalbright

Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir, by Cyndi Lauper with Jancee Dunn This book is a clear example of the way that knowing more about an artist whose music one may casually like at least a little makes them much less appealing … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Play On

Posted on January 24, 2021 by nathanalbright

Play On: Now, Then, And Fleetwood Mac, by Mick Fleetwood & Anthony Bozza One of the unfortunate truths of reading about creative people is that those who create art that one deeply enjoys are often people whose lives are loathsome … Continue reading →

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The Quest For Legitimacy

Posted on January 23, 2021 by nathanalbright

One of the things I enjoy doing is watching people play games, or watching people talk about games and game playing, which is what one does when one takes games more seriously than perhaps they were meant to do. One … Continue reading →

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