Christopher Moore

1 month ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

So as of this weekend one of our daughters has a new husband and we have a new son-in-law, and we had a very good time and experienced some fun Jewish wedding customs in the process too. So, blogging has been sparce. Voted today, right after reading Timothy Garton Ash's opinion piece in the today, saluting Canada's front row place in the global resistance to autocracy and trumpish. And I have been engrossed in both Mark Bourrie's and Greg Marchildon's .

1 month ago | sfgate.com | Christopher Moore

“Following publication of this Article concerns have been raised by Jaret & Harris about errors in methodology, analyses, and interpretation of the mineralogic and geochemical data in the Article. In addition, Boslough & Bruno show that comparisons between the Tall el-Hammam site and the Tunguska event are not adequately substantiated, as a result of errors propagated from the original sources that overestimated the temperature, wind speeds, and impact of the air blast at Tunguska.

1 month ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

I've been eager to read and take note of Greg Marchildon's Tommy Douglas and the Quest for Medicare, published a few months ago by University of Toronto Press. But UTP refers requests for review copies to NetGalley and NetGalley says UTP mostly doesn't supply it with titles, and not that one. And direct requests to UTP go unanswered.  Anyway Marchildon on medicare seems big and timely and surely of interest. I hope to see it soon.

1 month ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

He had been an Irish rebel who recanted, a patriotic American who grew disillusioned, an anti-clerical who made his peace with the Catholic church, a reformer who had gone over to John A. Macdonald, and a teetotaller given to alcoholic binges. -- from 1867: How the Fathers Made a DealWent down last night to the Duke of York pub in Toronto to observe the two hundredth birthday of Thomas D'Arcy McGee (1825-1868). Would Pogue Mahone or something more Irish have been more appropriate?

2 months ago | christophermoorehistory.blogspot.com | Christopher Moore

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