{"id":2818,"date":"2010-05-03T20:51:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T02:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2010-05-03T20:51:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T02:51:34","slug":"monday-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Monday Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Megan McArdle has the idea<\/a> of going to your Amazon history and seeing what the first thing you ordered was.<\/p>\n

Apparently, I did not mess around. I ordered:<\/p>\n

Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? : Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory<\/i> by Bill James. This is still the gold standard for HOF discussions and I re-read bits of it frequently.<\/p>\n

The Law<\/i> by Frederic Bastiat. This is one of the books that has guided my political philosophy.<\/p>\n

The Tenth Insight : Holding the Vision : Further Adventures of the Celestine Prophecy<\/i> by James Redfield. This was a gift for my sister, who is into new-age crap.<\/p>\n

The Death of Common Sense : How Law Is Suffocating America<\/i> by Philip K. Howard. Howard is someone conservatives should pay more attention to. He’s a progressive who believes in government and is incredibly frustrated with the way it is hamstrung by too many rules, too little authority and no accountability. It isn’t often I site a progressive as a big influence, but Howard is.<\/p>\n

The Crying of Lot 49 : A Novel (Perennial Fiction Library)<\/i> by Thomas Pynchon. Read on the advice of my English major girlfriend of the time. Not a bad read.<\/p>\n

Lost Rights : The Destruction of American Liberty<\/i> by James Bovard. Bovard is a radical libertarian even by my standard. But he has credibility on the subject since he has gone after both Democrats and Republicans. A compilation of constitutional abuses that is enraging. This is a big part of the reason I am against the War on Drugs and was instantly suspicious of the excesses in the War on Terror.<\/p>\n

Slow Learner : Early Stories<\/i> by Thomas Pynchon. A gift for said English major girlfriend.<\/p>\n

Fear and Loathing : On the Campaign Trail 72<\/i> by Hunter S. Thompson. Kind of long but an interesting insight into the ’72 election from a radical liberal.<\/p>\n

Looking over that list, I must say that I hit the jackpot on my first Amazon order. Of the five books I ordered for myself, all were good and at least three have been critical to my thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Megan McArdle has the idea of going to your Amazon history and seeing what the first thing you ordered was. Apparently, I did not mess around. I ordered: Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame? : Baseball, Cooperstown, and the Politics of Glory by Bill James. This is still the gold standard for HOF discussions … Continue reading Monday Meme<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-Js","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2827,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}