Your Humble Blogger just read Charlie Stross’s essay on Shaping the Future, which has some things in it that are quite interesting and provoking. In a general sort of way, I think he makes the mistake that people tend to…
Your Humble Blogger is uninspired these days, so here are a few items about which I might have blogged: Matthew Yglesias, now blogging and playing right field for The Atlantic, blogs about Sturgeons Law and the Internet. “The crux of…
So. Your Humble Blogger had been wanting to write about what happens when there is a news story about people saying things that the news can’t report. I’m not talking about defense secrets, here, I’m talking about cursing, racist epithets…
So, it’s well known that Senators have to run away from their records as much as they can run on them. That’s perhaps inevitable, given the nature of legislating, and it’s also a function of the vicious anti-Washington nastiness that…
I know I’ve blogged about this whole United States Attorney business before, but the thing has taken a bit of a turn, and I don’t think Left Blogovia is doing a very good job of articulating what is going on….
OK, so Your Humble Blogger is almost certainly wildly off-base on this stuff, but I keep worrying at it, in my mind, and I thought I’d share. Because I am seriously perplexed, and have been for many years, about the…
I happened across a fellow blogging as Gideon over at Public Defender, who has a note about a recent report that says, among other things, that Connecticut has the longest average time to select juries for both serious criminal tries…
You know those stories about things that happen to Arabic-speaking people in American airports? I hope you read this one, a note from the poet and children’s book author Naomi Shihab Nye. I found it through Book, Book, Book but…
It’s possible that Gentle Readers have been waiting for YHB to chime in about the joint press conferences held by the candidates for the two Parties’ nominations for President. Sadly, no. I read the transcripts, and there was nothing there…
A question for Gentle Readers, and I know I’ve asked this before… do any of y’all use book catalog software? Your Humble Blogger is about to move residences again, and thus are changing insurance coverage again, and this time I…