Author Archives: nathanalbright

About nathanalbright

I'm a person with diverse interests who loves to read. If you want to know something about me, just ask.

A Little Too Used To This

Posted on June 18, 2013

Today something happened that reminded me that I can get a little too used to my schedule a little too quickly. Being someone whose life has involved a fair amount of drastic change, this is not always a bad thing, … Continue reading →

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Better A Cat Than A Rat

Posted on June 18, 2013

Instead of merely talking about their dissatisfaction with the corrupt political system, some citizens of a Mexican town called Xalapa (who have even more to complain about than American citizens) have decided to do something about it, nominating a cat … Continue reading →

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Un Corazon Tierno

Posted on June 17, 2013

No es un gran secreto que me encantan a las muchachas y jovenes mujeres con corazones tiernos. No es un gran secreto porque tengo mi propio corazon tierno, y que quiero gente muy similar a mi. Es necesario decir sobre … Continue reading →

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Strangers In The Night

Posted on June 17, 2013

Every once in a while I will come up with a strange idea for something to write, and then muse over the material and the connections that I would wish to make, in order to determine if it is a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Alexander The Great: The Macedonian Who Conquered The World

Posted on June 17, 2013

Alexander The Great: The Macedonian Who Conquered The World, by Sean Patrick When I began to read this particular (very short) book, I was under the mistaken impression that it would be a biography (and a laudatory one) about Alexander … Continue reading →

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The Curious History Of Fathers’ Day

Posted on June 16, 2013

Readers of my blog may be familiar with my historical examination of Mothers’ Day [1] and the fact that I have already commented briefly and somewhat critically about the phenomenon by which Thailand honors its king on Fathers’ Day by … Continue reading →

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The Best That I Could Do

Posted on June 16, 2013

When it was time for John Mellencamp, a heartland rock & roll singer who had always been compared negatively to Bruce Springsteen, and who had been known by several names during his career, from Johnny Couger to John Couger Mellencamp … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Masculine Mandate

Posted on June 15, 2013

The Masculine Mandate: God’s Calling To Men, by Richard D. Phillips This sort of book, which I read because I figured it would be relevant to Father’s Day and deal with concerns about proper masculinity and its related issues with … Continue reading →

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Spitting Image

Posted on June 15, 2013

Today is the first post this weekend that I would like to devote to Father’s Day. As my thoughts about the subject of Father’s Day are somewhat gloomy and often deeply conflicted, I cannot imagine my posts on the subject … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Love Thy Rival

Posted on June 14, 2013

Love Thy Rival: What Sport’s Greatest Rivalries Teach Us About Loving Our Enemies, by Chad Gibbs As someone who has occasionally pondered on the relationship between sports and religion [1] and who comments more frequently about the moral corruption within … Continue reading →

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