Category: navel gazing

It seems to me that were YHB in the US House of Representatives, I would have somebody on staff (or a reliable volunteer, I suppose) who would be responsible for scanning the top ten blogs of Left Blogovia, the top…

Your Humble Blogger has high standards for good speeches, and I certainly have my complaints about it. But Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment on 9/11 deserves mention. I won’t give a detailed critique of it, partly because I would feel bad…

Well. Five years. I haven’t much to say. I will, instead, direct viewers to a work of art, Graydon Parrish’s The Cycle of Terror and Tragedy: September 11, 2001, brought to my attention by an article in the Hartford Courant….

It’s at times like this that I miss the Medium Lobster. Who else is going to explain it all to me? I mean, Our Only President—still the only one we’ve got—has just given us a birthday present of chained captives,…

Have you noticed, Gentle Reader, how annoying people are? No, not like that. It’s that conversations amongst people are, like everything else, more complicated than that, impossible to control, incoherent, fractal, unherdable. And what really gets up YHB’s nose is…

One thing that’s frustrating about Labor Day is the absence of labor, that is, of trade unions, from the day. Our Only President, in his perfunctory message, pointedly addresses workers as individuals, rather than as part of a movement. He…

YHB’s Gracious Host links to The Sweetest Sound: Popularity Index. This is a widget for finding out how common a particular surname is. YHB’s surname, for instance, is around the 1,500th most frequently occurring in the US. My Best Reader,…

So. Your Humble Blogger happened to be listening to NPR this afternoon and heard a sound clip of Our Only President: I have returned to make it clear to people that I understand we’re marking the first anniversary of the…

Gentle Readers outside Connecticut may not have seen Senator Lieberman’s essay in this Sunday’s Hartford Courant. Fortunately, somebody left a copy of the Courant outside my new residence, so I was able to smear the essay all over my fingers….

Humph. Just when I was getting back into the swing of this blogging thing, I have to go away for a couple of days. I’ll just mention two things: First, thank all you Gentle Readers for your comments, which have…