Monthly Archives: June 2021

Making A Virtue Out Of Bad Chemistry

Posted on June 30, 2021 by nathanalbright

One of the expectations that people have of songs, especially those songs that portray a couple, is that there is chemistry between the couple. Chemistry is a funny thing, and sometimes people don’t have it to somewhat laughable and extreme … Continue reading →

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Book Review: New World, Inc

Posted on June 30, 2021 by nathanalbright

New World Inc.: The Making Of America By England’s Merchant Adventurers, by John Butman & Simon Targett While this book focuses on the New World and America in its title, it should be noted that this book is really more … Continue reading →

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Scenes From An Oven

Posted on June 29, 2021 by nathanalbright

For reasons of bad timing, today I found myself with an invitation to pick up some personal belongings at work at my desk between 11AM and 11:45AM, which I did after doing a bit of work at home dealing with … Continue reading →

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Keep Your Cool

Posted on June 28, 2021 by nathanalbright

One of the reliable conversation topics one can have in a conversation is the weather. Talking about the weather gets a bad reputation, as if one is so boring and so bored with one’s company that one is talking about … Continue reading →

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Well Behaved Men Seldom Make History Either

Posted on June 27, 2021 by nathanalbright

One of the comments that one sees often as a way of contemporary women seeking to justify their bad behavior is that well-behaved women seldom make history. What is not generally understood when a comment like this one is made … Continue reading →

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The Human Element

Posted on June 25, 2021 by nathanalbright

There are some people who are enamored with the thought of the human element in the officiating of sports, one of those factors of randomness that exist in many games. While the rules of the game presuppose a desire to … Continue reading →

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Louis Agassiz Was Right

Posted on June 24, 2021 by nathanalbright

It is not a popular opinion in contemporary science to say so, but Louis Agassiz was right that what we find when looking at the natural history of the world is more a world shaped by massive extinction events than … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Frontiersman

Posted on June 24, 2021 by nathanalbright

Frontiersman: Daniel Boone And The Making Of America, by Meredith Mason Brown This is the kind of book that I really enjoy reading, and enjoy all the more because Daniel Boone happens to be a surprisingly close relative of mine … Continue reading →

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Quality Will Out

Posted on June 23, 2021 by nathanalbright

There is a cliche that is said often in soccer matches–and I have seen enough soccer matches to know–that quality will out. Yet this does not always happen. Anyone who has painful memories, for example, of the disastrous qualifying campaign … Continue reading →

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Sometimes The Messenger Is The Message

Posted on June 22, 2021 by nathanalbright

Frequently I find myself struck by questions of communication, and among those questions is the relationship between the messenger and the message. Some years ago when people still cared about the music that Demi Lovato made, she released two singles … Continue reading →

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