The Miserable Middle Aged Git Rebellion against virtual friendings, updates of the `I'm sitting at home updating my Facebook' level of stimulation, and all-round timewasting grows.  Check out the following Newsweek article just brought to my attention by Allen Mickle here.  And a revolution needs teeshirts.  No Che for us -- we need the essence of MMAGhood.  Could be Derek Thomas -- except rumour has it he has a Facebook page, where he describes himself as `well into, you know, eating fast food, dudes like Wagner, Norse gods, eating more fast food, helmets with horns on and other, like, cool stuff.'

On another note, John MacLeod's book on the Iolaire disaster is now available here.  My wife, a leodhasach to the tips of her toes, had a great aunt whose finace was lost in this tragedy -- and who never subsequently married. 

John writes with flair; and the eyes of the dead gaze eerily from the photos on the inside cover, too young to die. A truly heartbreaking and haunting tale.

With this volume and his other book on the spiritual history of Lewis, it is surely time Birlinn obtained an American distributor!