Retirement

Like so many of the stories I grew up with, “everyone retires at 65” didn’t work for me. Now, after eight years more working part-time freelance, my last assignment has run out and I am done. For all that time, mine has been the tertiary income for the household, so the financial worries are minimal. I now have no excuse for not writing more.

Classic revisited

james_nicoll looks at the classic defense against city planners, The Death and Life of Great American Cities , by Jane Jacobs.

Genre vs. Literary

A look at “the serious literature that we read vs. the genre crap for the masses” and “the fun stuff that we read vs. the boring Serious genre.”

Thanx to Metafilter

Minor victory

Charles Pierce feels modified rapture at the misdemeanor conviction of a mine executive for the depraved indifference that killed 29 of his employees.

Home invasion

It must warm the cockles of Rand Paul’s heart to know that private enterprise can also do the jackbooted stormtroopers thing.