Category Archives: Books

Messengers and the Law

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Hoag

Studying for the LSAT isn’t fun, but this logic game scenario made me feel warm and comfortable, because I’ve been that messenger. Maybe he wants to become an attorney after he delivers his seven packages.

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Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine?

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Hoag

America by Allen Ginsberg America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing. America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. I can’t stand my own mind. America when will we end the human war? Go fuck yourself with … Continue reading →

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Birthday of a Broken Saint

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Hoag

Hitchhiker by Jack Kerouac “Tryna get to sunny Californy” – Boom. It’s the awful raincoat making me look like a selfdefeated self-murdering imaginary gangster, an idiot in a rueful coat, how can they understand my damp packs – my mud … Continue reading →

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Hunter S. Thompson

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Hoag

Hoag, circa 1979 “It was only then, after exhausting all other means of demoralizing the public, that he turned seriously to writing. Several years earlier he had given up bikes “because of the stigma.” After a long stint as a … Continue reading →

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Nothing Rational in the Ordering of Human Affairs.

Posted on November 25, 2009 by Hoag

From A History of Modern Philosophy by Bertrand Russell “It was an age (3rd century BC) in which a man who had money and no desire for power could enjoy a very pleasant life- always assuming that no marauding army … Continue reading →

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Loretta Napoleoni’s Market Matrix

Posted on April 4, 2009 by Hoag

  Rogue Economics, Loretta Napoleoni, Seven Stories Press, 2008, 308 pages. A few generations ago, I might have been a tubercular twelve-year-old, working fourteen hours a day in a textile factory in Massachusetts. Malnourished, miserable, hacking up the airborne cotton … Continue reading →

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Neo-colonialism and Beer

Posted on March 23, 2009 by Hoag

  Ahh, resort culture. In Aruba, just like anywhere else with beautiful beaches and a depressed local/thriving tourism economy,  the locals are treated like second-class citizens by the tourists, and the tourists are treated like walking credit cards by the … Continue reading →

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Robert Fisk Won’t Shut Up

Posted on March 20, 2009 by Hoag

       The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk, Random House Inc., 2005, 1136 pages   Who is this guy Fisk? I remember hearing his name years ago; not because I came across … Continue reading →

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Cabeza de Vaca

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Hoag

A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca by Andrés Reséndez, Perseus publishing, 2007, 336 pages Early in the sixteenth century, an expedition of Spanish explorers wrecked their ship off the coast of Florida. All of the … Continue reading →

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