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Mike__M

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About Me



My Interests

Music:

yes

Television:

no

Books:

CURRENTLY
Nonfiction
Overthrow : America's century of regime change from Hawaii to Iraq
by Stephen Kinzer
Fiction
The historian : a novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
Kid Lit:
A tree is nice
by Janice May Udry
pictures by Marc Simont.
RECENTLY
Nonfiction:
Crashing the gate : Netroots, grassroots, and the rise of people-powered politics
by Jerome Armstrong & Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
The theocons: secular America under siege
by Damon Linker
Fiction:
The Quest
by Donald Minden
CURRENT FAVORITES
Nonfiction:
The underground history of American education : a schoolteacher's intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling
by John Taylor Gatto
Fiction:
The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
The impartial recorder: a novel
by Ian Sansom
LIFETIME FAVORITES
Guns, germs, and steel : the fates of human societies
by Jared Diamond.
The Name of the Rose
by Umberto Eco, translated by W. Weaver
Don Quixote
by Miguel Cervantes
The Collected Poems of Richard Wilbur
Grandfather Twilight
by Barbara Helen Berger
The Sand Horse
by Ann Turnbull
pictures by Michael Foreman

Heroes:

Bento Spinoza: philosopher

Tecumseh: patriot

Georg Steller: naturalist, aboriginal rights advocate

Thomas Paine: free thinker, patriot

David Douglas: naturalist

Barbara Bailey, Peter Chase, George Christian, Jan Nocek: librarians, anti-USA PATRIOT patriots

My Blog

Mike Gravel excluded from candidate debate

Outspoken opponent of war with Iran, presidential candidate Mike Gravel is being denied participation in the next Democratic debate.Gravel speaks his mind on many issues, in particular he has consiste...
Posted by Mike__M on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 05:53:00 PST