I’d been watching a lot of House MD a while ago. Perhaps 1/3 of the show is taken up with mystical medical mumbo-jumbo that’s gibberish to me, and yet it’s still compelling. How can that be? It’s like watching a soap opera in a foreign language. Then I talked to a friend who went to […]

House MD is the finest show on TV. And Batman Begins was really good. I loved Ender’s Game and Speaker for the dead even more, but this article about his views reminded me that he’s a troublesome man and it’s a strange book. It’s weird, because I loved the books, and yet now I have […]