Thank you Ed Gray
Ed Gray, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald, has come out of the closet. Good for him. For those of you not familiar with Boston and its newspapers, the Boston Herald is the tabloid-sized paper, and the Globe is…
Author Archives: Vardibidian
Is Misanthropy Wrong?
I mean, morally? I have held for some years that misanthropy is essentially a sin. Humans are made in the image of the Lord, and to hold them in contempt is to hold the Lord in contempt. Still further, to…
More about Globalization, and other things
Your Humble Blogger just caught a bit in “Taming the phoenix? Monetary governance after the crisis”, by Benjamin J. Cohen, in The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance, edited by Gregory W. Noble and John Ravenhill (©…
Interested? I am.
Sometimes, Your Humble Blogger doesn’t come across an article until it’s too late to link to it. Usually, I’ll just mention it to people within earshot. But I liked this piece by Geoffrey Nunberg enough to seek out his web…
Baseball
OK, there’s less than a week left of the baseball season, and there’s been a ton of excitement. Last night, the three divisions in the American League all got clinched (well, the Yankees clinched a tie), and the wildcard races…
Still saying it
One of my favorite bloggers, Nathan Newman recently wrote a piece about the rhetoric of the Left in the wake of Our Only President’s disastrous decision to invade Iraq. As some of my Gentle Readers will recall, I was ambivalent…
Arrrrrr!
Arrrrrr, me beauties, and ye won’t have forgotten it’s International Talk like a Pirate Day, hey? Or will it be the Cat? In other news, International Talk like an Inside Trader day has been indefinitely postponed. Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Why (a guy thinks) Aesthetics Matter
Gentle Readers, There’s an interesting couple of posts at Refference, a blog by a fellow named Jeremy Reff, arguing for a more aesthetic approach to political conversation. I’m agin it, myself, but I haven’t any really coherent idea why. I…
Hey Bulldog!
The Yale strike is ovah! I’ve no real idea who won, but my goodness, isn’t that a mess. The whole Yale labor thing is a textbook example of how a bad management can encourage a hostile union to be more…
The General is in
Your Humble Blogger has been terribly busy lately, and both the quantity and quality of entries in this Tohu Bohu are lagging. I apologize for that, and hope to pick it back up quite soon, but in the meantime ……