While Putin exists, Russian Olympism perishes

Books enjoyed in October. Five favorites with astericks.

Path Lit By Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe by David Maraniss*
John Muir: Nature’s Visionary by Gretel Ehrlich*
Has Anyone Seen My Toes by Christopher Buckley
The Judge Hunter by Christopher Buckley
What I’d Say To The Martians by Jack Handey
W.B. Yeats: Images of Ireland by A. Legarsmeur and B. McCabe
Now Go Out There (and get curious) by Mary Karr
Deeper Thoughts by Jack Handey
A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by William Manchester
The New Age of Adventure by Sebastian Junger, Philip Caputo, Tim Cahill, et al*
The Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handy
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
So Little Done The Testament of a Serial Killer by Theodore Dalrymple
My Journey To Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neel
Tibet: Culture on the Edge by Phil Borges
On Mencken …Edited by John Dorsey
A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg by Tim Cahill*
The Sun King by Nancy Mitford*
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milam Kundera
One Hundred Poems From The Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth

Walking with Nietzsche

Where The Boys Aren’t

Discussion: Eliud Kipchoge ties to doping or lack thereof

All About Coffee

The biggest race you never heard of. Here

Yikes, there’s a guy in the girls locker room! Read

Hey, I thought pot smoothed you out. Consider.

Toxic masculinity?