Greetings and Salutations!

Please allow me to introduce myself: I'm the man the first ten amendments to the American Constitution were intended to protect. That's right, it's me. I've read them, memorized a few even, and I can tell you, until further notice, I'm watching my back. Let's review: Bill of Rights

Joanna Biggar On Bermuda Shorts!

"Happily, early on, James J. Patterson discovered that the bumpy road through life was lined with books. Clearly, somewhere along the way he pulled out a volume of Montaigne. The young 20th century rebel must have found much to admire in the French Renaissance thinker’s essays, and especially the meaning of the word essayer, to try – both as a philosophy of living and as a style for writing. The essays in Patterson’s delightful volume, Bermuda Shorts, highlight the ways in which life and literature intertwine. And, like the 16th century master, Patterson makes this literary form his own invention."

Find her lovely blog here!

The Only Way Out Of The Financial Crisis!

Economist Paul Krugman smells smoke, so he’s yelling “Fire!” In an op-ed piece in the New York Times, he sees a new and prolonged depression setting in.
Meanwhile Simon Jenkins at the London Guardian has a solution that could and should take fire all around the globe, Cut Defense Spending, All of It!

Pattersonian Update!

Vagabonds unite! Quick takes here on The Tea Party’s Presidential candidate, Texan Secession, Summer Reading, CEO Compensation, Immigration, The World Cup is a Fraud, Bermuda Shorts Updates, and yes, More Summer Reading…

CALLING ALL ECONOMISTS II

A year or more ago I sent an appeal to Patterson’s Vagabonds to debate the idea that America should suspend sending jobs to “Slave Nations” like China, by simply stating that no job should be exported to a country that does not allow collective bargaining. Since not a soul replied, I can only conclude, the measure passes by unanimous consent!

Dr. Katherine Williams On Bermuda Shorts

"Some of the essays are the literary equivalent of the Buddhist meditation on the skull, which is meant to use the sense of impending death as an impetus to love the juicy, impermanent life at hand. How fortunate for the reader that life, for this author is music..."