… between short vacation trips, I was happy to find that Diana West’s The Death of the Grown-Up and Robert Spencer’s Religion of Peace? had both arrived. (Andy Bostom reviews Diana’s book in the Washington Times today.)

I needed some time away from the jihad, so I took Roger Angell’s Gametime to the beach. It reminded me of how much I love baseball, which I’ve seen entirely too little of this year. Now I need to get to Steve Hayes’s Cheney, and Andrew Ferguson’s Land of Lincoln, and the second volume of Bill Bennett’s America — The Last Best Hope, and … and … and …

Man, the summer is just too short.