But what are the odds?
John Scalzi over at the Whatever has an interesting question: what would it take, in the next 20 months or so, for Our Only President to produce a record of Anything But Failure? And the amazing thing is, there really…
Category: navel gazing
Or, I should say, slides further into…
I’ve been meaning to write about Ledbetter v. Goodyear, but hadn’t got around to it, and I find that I’m not able to come up with a real essay on the topic. I did want to mention that when Chief…
2012, if you squint a bit
There is a new logo for the 2012 Olympics. New branding. Multimedia. According to the shills who charged a packet o’ dough for it, the new brand “will work with new technology and across traditional and new media networks.” It…
About letting one’s babies grow up to be cowboys, this Tohu Bohu remains silent
Just because YHB hasn’t done a Top Five in quite a while, here’s the Top Five Bits of Bad Advice in Pop Tunes. This is more or less off the top of my head, and is from songs I know….
He supported this criminal administration because-look, freedom!
George F. Will begins his Case for Conservatism in yesterday’s Washington Post (and many other papers this morning, I’m guessing) by saying “Conservatism’s recovery of its intellectual equilibrium requires a confident explanation of why America has two parties and why…
Memorial
Drummer Hodge They throw in Drummer Hodge, to rest Uncoffined — just as found: His landmark is a kopje-crest That breaks the veldt around; And foreign constellations west Each night above his mound. Young Hodge the Drummer never knew —…
Library, Thing, Done
Well, and Your Humble Blogger mentioned some time ago that we were going to catalogue the books in the house. And I have. I chose Library Thing, and although I don’t really care very much about having my library public,…
It could be the fists-in-eyes gesture, or eye-rolling, or-maybe there’s a smiley for it
I assume that Ezra Klein is essentially kidding around when he calls for doing away with political speeches. “Not the televised sort,” he adds, although it’s not clear to me at all what distinction there is between a televised sort…
The opposite of read
My Perfect Non-Reader as part of a Literacy Challenge (perhaps YHB should begin referring to her as My Perfectly Literate Non-Reader) received a homework assignment on Antonyms. Excellent, thought I to myself, antonyms are interesting and fun, and reasonably well-suited…
First, piss off your allies
When looking for something to blog about, the simplest way to get inspiration is to read something really annoying, and then blog about how annoyed you are. No, I didn’t pick David Ignatious’’ss mind-bogglingly stupid op-ed that my local paper…