Category: navel gazing

So. I’m not sure why I’m bothering to write about a column from last Tuesday, but it’s been niggling at me. The headline on top of the George Will column, at least on-line, was The Leaders We Have, which seems…

In response to the recent and difficult to believe activities of Our Only National Legislature (Two Houses, No Balls), John Scalzi wrote a nice little rant On Moral Cowardice, wherein he happened to note the following about Our Only President:…

From minyan, who I don’t know, but found through a particle on the Making Light sidebar: Our story begins with (insert appropriate pronoun later): Yakety Yak (The Coasters) living in: Church of Women (XTC) who spends time: Everybody’s Crying Mercy…

Your Humble Blogger hasn’t ranted about the abominable detention bill, because—hey, any Gentle Readers not already outraged? Anybody feel they need to know more? Any of you think that there was a real compromise and that Senators McCain and Warner…

Your Humble Blogger has been thinking, lately, about apologies. Not only are we into the Days of Awe, during which time we tend to run around like rabbits, apologizing to everybody we meet and also streetlights and newspaper boxes, but…

Your Humble Blogger has been running around, doing this and that, purchasing honey cake and challah and taiglach (rather than baking, which would have been even more time-consuming and laborious and less yummy), and giving people rides various places, and…

Your Humble Blogger is, as you well know, Gentle Readers all, a bit of a political junkie. I am fascinated by campaigns. I adore political rhetoric, and I find the manner in which a candidate chooses his message and its…

’Tis a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and the air smells now, as if it blew from a far-away galleon; they have been making rum somewhere under the flag of the Jolly Roger, ye Piratical Readers, and…

This is minor, and really counts as Just Another Awfulness, nothing compared to the people that have been killed, maimed, tortured, wrongfully imprisoned, or bankrupted. But the ways Our Only President and his Republican Congress fuck with language makes YHB…

Musing whilst listening to the news on the radio and reading it in the newspapers, I happened on a phrase that I would like to see Democratic candidates and their associates begin using immediately and use as often as possible:…