A Few More Gun Thoughts

Guns are one of those great American topics like Abortion, Evolution, and Global Warming, where what we believe is the absolute truth and everyone else is just flat WRONG.  This, of course, makes it a lot of fun to talk about. Real munitions, like Metal Storm million-round-a-minute machine guns and A-Bombs, are not easily available to the average citizen. Fully automatic machine guns can’t be found at Wal-Mart.  Tanks and Aircraft Carriers aren’t for sale on eBay.  No private citizen owns a fully functional Black Bird or a Stealth Bomber.  What kind of panty waist Militia are we Americans putting…

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Man In The Dark by Paul Auster

The audio book of Man in The Dark was read by author Paul Auster and he does a brilliant job of bringing this odd story to life.  His voice has a soft cadence and a deliberate touch which perfectly matches the slow paced story of a seventy-two year old man who can’t quit get to sleep. As our tale opens, we find our hero alone in the dark, staring at the ceiling he can’t see, surrounded by an emptiness that he can’t quite feel.  To keep himself occupied, he tells himself a story. A man wakes up in a perfectly…

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