A meme from Gentle Reader Matt Hulan. Somebody looked in LibraryThing for the tag “unread” and took the top 106 books (there was an eight-way tie for 99th place. Then they started the apparently standard meme business of bolding names…
Your Humble Blogger came across Why Royalties? a blognote by Evan Schnittman, who is Vice President of Business Development and Rights for the Academic and USA Divisions of Oxford University Press. He is responding to Richard Charken, CEO of Macmillan…
Adele Stan over at Tapped looks at Richard Viguerie’s Picks for Attorney General, and brings up (and Chris in her comments makes explicit) something that gets right up Your Humble Blogger’s nose. If Senate Democrats fail to use the confirmation…
I find myself startled (all over again) by how badly our political system is dealing with Our Only President. The magnificent genius of our system is that it expects that sometimes a bad man will get elected, to some office…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger goes out of town for a few days and all hell breaks loose. Actually, Hell didn’t break loose at all. And, frankly, if it did, I think out of town is exactly where I would…
In Which Your Humble Blogger returns after ten years to update a link, and adds a pull quote, too, just for kicks.
So. The Economist has a blog on “life and art” called Moreover. It appears to be utterly worthless. What’s that about? They have guest posts from Diane and Michael Ravitch about … well, the first one is about Cultural vandalism…
Your Humble Blogger read an op-ed by Rosa Brooks in yesterday’s Hartford Courant. The Courant headlined it Bad Reasons To Stay – Or Go. It was reprinted from the Los Angeles Times, who had called it Clear-eyed questions about Iraq….
YHB’s Gracious Host today asked about Mental Age, that is, “how old do you think of yourself as being, and how different is that (if at all) from what the calendar tells you?” After thinking about it for a while,…
I had thought that Rome Reborn would be pretty darned cool. It’s a three-dimensional model of Rome, as of June 21, 320 (c.e.), including some seven thousand buildings, some of which have detailed exteriors and interiors. And, you know, it…