Topicality be Damned, Back to Geography!

I keep meaning to write something about poor Jared Diamond’s woes and the shadenfreude that the entire discipline of anthropology is currently feeling.  Other topics that should have already been thrown into the giant hopper but haven’t:

I’ve started racking up good reviews for Son of the Great River, including librarians and middle-schoolers.  I doubt I’ll be quitting my day job any time soon, but it’s nice to know that it wasn’t terrible.  Interestingly, when you speak to modern 4th-6th graders