Drex Davis Recent Posts- Why I supported Proposition 102 in Arizona (and Prop. 8 in CA)
- Today I voted Libertarian, and it felt great
- oh, this is rich; the “maestro” suprised, and Waxman hits all the wrong notes
- My ongoing battle with NJ
- Thugz at the DailyKos targeting Mormons
- Painkillers vs. Cocaine
- Is Obama inevitable?
- The Super Easy Guide To Understanding the Financial Crisis
- Responding to an Altgate blog - We the people are not We the investors
- 72 cents for your soul, young one
Recommended Reading
I’ll keep updating this regularly. This is a half-complete work in progress . . . for now . . .
- Non-fiction
1. Moneyball by Michael Lewis
2. The Hot Zone by Richard Preston
3. Liar’s Poker by Michael Lewis
4. The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror by Natan Sharansky
5. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
6. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
7. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist by Roger Lowenstein
- Fiction
1. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
2. Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
3. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. Harry Potter (Books 4, 5, 6) by JK Rowling
5. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Religious/LDS
1. The Book of Mormon (currently selling for 9 cents on Amazon, which is way overpriced considering that any LDS missionary will give you one at no charge if you ask - or even if you don’t, sometimes.)
2. Joseph Smith and the Beginnings of Mormonism by Richard Bushman
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I Am Pro-Choice
If you listened in today on the John Roberts Supreme Court Nomination Hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, you heard Democratic Senators Schumer, Kennedy, and Fienstein (I’m sorry if I mispelled their names . . . I get the Republican names right b/c what they have to say is usually more worth listening to) trying to bait Roberts into a trap by trying to get him to make statements that alluded that he would try to overturn Roe v. Wade, the early 70s court decision that found a “right to abortion” buried somewhere in the margins of the Constitution’s privacy clause (it had to be in the margins because it couldn’t be found anywhere close to the text). That decision has been the modus operandi of all the woman’s “right to choose” talk. (We conveniently leave off the “abortion” part of the “right to choose” phrase. It would be better if we said, “Right to choose to abort a fetus in the womb.”)
But I just want to make it clear that I believe in a woman’s right to choose. Read more