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jss @ January 28, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I haven’t written much about writing and I don’t think I will. Every once in a while, though, I get a glimmer of insight into how and why I do what I do.
I have a book to write, I am pretty sure of that right now. And so there is writing to do.
And there is [...]
jss @ January 23, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Globe and Mail, the newspaper of record in Canada with a weekly circulation of something like two million, leads their travel section today with a big article on medical tourism. Dave McGinn does a nice job looking at the phenomenon from the Canadian perspective, and I’m not just saying so because he interviewed [...]
jss @ January 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I can get far more revved up about the subject of the news media than most people, though I’m not like most people who really pop their buttons about it — you know, like the ones who think that the news media is all part of a big, lib-er-uhl conspiracy (except for Fox) and also [...]
jss @ January 20, 2008 # 2 Comments
(Update: If you’re going to read this, you should also know that TigerDirect, or at least someone who works for the company, apologized to me in May ’08. Better late than never.)
They still have $89.95 of mine, and I still have a paperweight in the exact form of an 8500 GT video card. I wrote [...]
jss @ January 11, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Professor Milica Bookman, author of Medical Tourism in Developing Countries, has reportedly backtracked on whether Cuba is ready to step to the forefront of countries that offer low-cost, high quality medical care to international patients, after a visit to Havana.
I say “reportedly” because I haven’t talked to Milica myself, though we are email acquaintances; and [...]
jss @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m doing research for my next book, which I’m not ready to write about yet though I have been contemplating that I might sort of ease into it at some appropriate point in time — which isn’t now, so I’m going to have to leave you guessing as to why I was searching The [...]
jss @ January 9, 2008 # No Comment Yet
… on New Hampshire. The only big losers were the pollsters and anyone who listened to them and pronounced Hillary Clinton D.O.A. Among the latter would be me, just a little, though I specifically said I didn’t think a loss would kill her candidacy. But I took a wild-assed guess, based on everything I was [...]
jss @ January 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I’m heartily sick, already, of the political opinions of:
Anyone who thinks that Hillary Clinton’s tiny show of emotion was other than honest.
Anyone who thinks the Democratic nominating process is, for practical purposes, over, as soon as the votes are counted in New Hampshire.
Anyone who acts or speaks as though “change” is a new political concept.
That’s [...]
jss @ January 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
I really want to believe in the brand new conventional wisdom, which is that Barak Obama has made activists and voters out of a new generation of Americans. I want to believe this even though I haven’t made up my mind whom I want, myself, to be the next president of the United States. I [...]
jss @ January 4, 2008 # No Comment Yet
When Beauty from Afar first came out, I was afflicted with Amazon Sales Rank Syndrome, a phrase I apparently just coined because a Google search for it finds nothing, nada. ASRS sufferers have mood swings linked to the mysterious ups and downs of how their book is doing according to Amazon, as measured by Sales [...]
