Andrew Carroll: War Letters : Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars
Bernard Lewis: What Went Wrong? : The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
Bill Bryson: A Walk in the Woods : Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
James Webb: Born Fighting : How the Scots-Irish Shaped America
John Keegan: Intelligence in War : Knowledge of the Enemy from Napoleon to Al-Quaeda
Joseph J. Ellis: Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Lee Harris: Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History
Malcolm Gladwell: The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Mark Palmer: Breaking the Real Axis of Evil: How to Oust the World's Last Dictators by 2025
Mona Charen: Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First
Neal Stephenson: The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)
NEAL STEPHENSON: The Diamond Age : Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer (Bantam Spectra Book)
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game (Ender Wiggins Saga (Paperback))
Orson Scott Card: Pastwatch The Redemption of Christopher Columbus
Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the Dead (Ender Wiggins Saga (Paperback))
Paul Johnson: Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Nineties
Steven D. Levitt: Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven Pinker: The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Thomas L. Friedman: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Thomas Sowell: The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation As a Basis for Social Policy
Victor Hanson: Carnage and Culture : Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
Walter Russell Mead: Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World
I started this blog in December 2003 and there was an old "About" page that contained some biographical stuff. (It's here if you want to read it.) Turns out that to be a good blogger would require more time and effort than I care to put forth at this point in time so the world will have survive with my intermittent hackery instead.
If you're really interested in my life here's some links:
I got married in October 2004.
Here are my answers to the "3 things" and the "5 things that gross you out" memes.
And if you're wondering about the name "Fine? Why Fine?" well, as I wrote in my original "About" page, blame my wife:
For example: Chrissy will ask me how her hair looks, I'll say "Fine." She'll say "Fine? Why fine?" Apparently "fine" is not nearly descriptive enough to describe her hair, a chicken cutlet, the location of a picture frame, and a whole host of other things that could clearly be "fine.'
So there you go.