In case Gentle Readers missed it, here’s the quote of the, well, of the quote, via FP’s Passport: UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer said: “We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area.” From…
I think the thing to do is to sock my Gentle Readers with a flurry of short pieces, because I haven’t the sustained time to write long ones. I could, as is my usual wont, gather the short pieces together,…
Your Humble Blogger is once again on the verge of changing residences. Not moving far, this time. Just a few blocks. Still, it’s a lot of work. And there’s the Youngest Member to be dandled. As a result, blogging will…
OK, the thing that makes this meme interesting to me is that I am Not a Writer. (from Gentle Reader Matt H. at xenolith): Take someone else’s list of Ten Things I Don’t Know About Writing, comment on it, and…
From this morning’s Hartford Courant: Now, that’s harsh. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,-Vardibidian….
Els Kushner over at Book, Book, Book, in reference to Father’s Day and children’s books, asks Where are the dads? She gives some of her favorite fathers of fiction, and I commented with a handful of my own (The Borrowers,…
So, my town’s council passed a budget, and nobody was very happy with it. The main problem is that the town has just re-evaluated properties after ten years or so of real estate madness (well, more than that of the…
Your Humble Blogger was going to elucidate and enumerate the layers of bad taste in Fallen Soldier, an op-ed by Fouad Ajami in Friday’s Wall Street Journal, but I became intimidated and gave up. Yes, it’s a plea for Our…
Following up on my note from yesterday about how exceptional this campaign will be, I should probably put my observation in the context in which it came to me. Which is this: a majority of Republicans still tell pollsters that…
I was ruminating, today, on this idea I’ve been repeating that the next President will be an exception of one kind or another, whether it’s the first female president, the first black president, the first Latino president, the first Mormon…