Whenever I read books or periodicals (in other words, stuff that isn't written on a glowing screen), I have a stack of those baby Post-Its next to me. It started in graduate school when I'd never know if I'd have to write a paper about that particular book, and it got really bad when I started reviewing so many books for Surrender, Dorothy: Reviews. It's now extended to magazines, because I'm interested in current subjects to riff on over at BlogHer or even here.
"When I was 11, my father, a businessman who, in his day, took a dubious risk or two, gave me a key lesson in finance and life which I knew was meaningful without understanding it. 'You're not bankrupt,' he said, 'until people know you're bankrupt.'"
"No group of winners enjoyed a more perverse windfall than gun-shop owners, whose showrooms were besieged by militiamen, survivalists, deerstalkers, rifle-range groupies, fans of the cult film Red Dawn, and other Second Amendment bitter-enders loading up on guns, scopes, and ammo as if ready to refight the Battle of the Alamo in the Home Depot parking lot."





