There's an amusing article in The New York Times about dating and book preferences — what titles/authors are the dealbreakers? Some say, as long as he/she reads...I haven't dated too many readers, which makes me sad now that I think about it. But I can't help but think of one particular dating experience I had a few years ago. At the beginning of the date when we were getting into the job discussion, I mentioned that I wrote book reviews. His horrified response: "Wait...you have to read the whole book?!"
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful. —Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer
