Interrupting this book and publishing blog’s irregularly scheduled “programming” tonight. Super typhoon Haiyan (Philippine name: Yolanda), one of the worst storms on record (if not the worst), has come and gone. That wild, crazy bitch of a weather disturbance has caused immense destruction and unimaginable carnage across the Philippines’ Visayas region (particularly Leyte, Iloilo and Samar) […]