While looking for something else entirely -- I don't even remember what, at this point! -- I happened upon a personal minor Holy Grail. Kessinger Publishing, which I knew only as a publisher of obscure Masonic-iana, seems to have expanded their inventory greatly, and they had a copy of John Eliot's A Grammar of the Massachusetts Indian Language. ( Read more... )

I just heard this snippet of news on the radio. It seems that the first
Muslim has been elected to Congress, and has made the decision to be
sworn in on the Koran. What struck me was that this decision was said
to be "controversial". Why? I suppose there's a faction that believes
that if YOU don't swear on the book that I believe to be The Only ( Read more... )