Your Humble Blogger can’t honestly praise the speech very highly as a work of craft, but then Mohammad Yunus is not primarily a speechwriter, and I suspect he wrote a good deal of this one himself. After all, it’s not…
On a lighter note, it seems that at a holiday reception at the White House this week, four women wore the same red dress. One of those women was Laura Bush. The gracious hostess fled, changed, and came back. She…
It’s possible, Gentle Reader, that you have been thinking Is Vardibidian going to go through the Presidential candidates like he did three years ago? Now, what Your Humble Blogger has been thinking is closer to I’m not going to have…
I was thinking about writing a note about the nomination of Robert M. Gates to the position of Secretary of Defense. The problem is that when it gets down to it, my only real comment is meh, it could certainly…
Well, I just figured out something about Test Match cricket that I had never understood. There are lots of things that I don’t understand about cricket, because I have never bothered to learn the rules properly, but have just picked…
Your Humble Blogger’s Perfect Non-Reader reads very well, thank you. She’s particularly fond of the Oz books, and, being her old man’s daughter, her favorite is not the Wonderful Wizard but the Lost Princess. Pretentious five-year-old! Score! Anyway, she brought…
Via d over at Lawyers, Guns and Money, the following quote from Victor David Hanson in a Wall Street Journal editorial called Losing the Enlightenment, where he mention’s Wal-Mart’s “amazing ability to bring the veneer of real material prosperity to…
OK, I’m all for actors getting drunk and rambling anti-authoritarian incoherency, but that does not mean that I want to hear about Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman getting busy all over the Lincoln Bedroom. I mean. Ew. On the other…
So, I know that all you Gentle Readers have already come across this in plenty of other places, but what the hell is up with Orson Scott Card? Did he have a stroke or something? I mean, I understand that…
So a couple of weeks ago, my Best Reader and I happened to watch a few minutes of the The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor televised ceremony. Not this year’s, but a rerun of the 2005 show,…