Jane Haddam

Okay, I ‘d appreciate it if you’d put comments for the last post onto this one, just to see if it’s working. I think I did something again that screwed things up.

We’re having a little trouble with the blog program.  Maybe it will pass. But–I’m not having an hiatus.  I’m finishing a Gregor.  And writing Gregor takes precedence over any other writing.  So here we are.  The deadline is approaching.  I’ve got my murderer up a tree without a paddle.  I have no idea what’s going…

Yes, I know.  There’s been no Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 1.  But it exists, actually–or part of it still does. It’s sitting in the drafts folder of this blog. I spent a great deal of time this morning writing it, a long piece about Rick Santorum and amnioscentesis and Dutch euthanasia and whatnot–and then the computer…

I’ve been thinking about my last post, and I’m going to try to be clearer. Part of the reason for that is that I have finished the book I have been asked to blurb–NOT a St. Martin’s book, by the way–and I am completely flummoxed. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many good ideas…

So, this is supposed to be a day off. It’s not a day off, of course.  Come lunchtime, I’m going to have to buckle down and correct yet another huge pile of papers, and I’ve already worked on the new Gregor this morning and e-mailed a dozen people who do not seem to be able…

This is not going to be a significant post. I have been having one of those miserable weeks that come to an end with a bang, and I think I’m going to go quietly crazy. It started, of course, with the damned car, and then it progressed. My older son had his iPhone stolen on…

But just a few. Yesterday, I managed to get myself hit by a car, more or less–not run over, just hit, and it was doing about 4 miles an hour in a parking lot, but I’m a bit bruised up and achy. I can type, but I’m not thinking too well. But, a couple of…

So. I’ve been thinking. CathyF gave a sketchy indication of how she would change things, and I will have to admit that I’ve got a problem right off the back. She would end the practice of funding schools with local property taxes, and I definitely would not. The local control of schools is very important…

Cathy F says that not all liberals think alike, and I agree with her–not all conservatives think alike, either, and neither do all libertarians. She posts a link to an article by Nicholas Kristof to illustrate that and wonders why I didn’t reference it–and there’s the rub. I didn’t reference it because I didn’t think…

So, while I’ve been sick, the whole world seems to have exploded over Charles Murray’s book Coming Apart, which I think I brought up here a few weeks ago. And by now I’ve read it, and I find myself in the same  sort of bemused state I often get when Murray publishes a book. There…