As Your Humble Blogger is a fan of Tom Stoppard’s plays, I greatly enjoyed reading Revolution in the Head, by Neal Ascherson, a feature in the Guardian about the new play. The play is set in Czechoslovakia, and Mr. Ascherson…
Your Humble Blogger lives (at the moment) in the great state of Connecticut, which is generating a good deal of political chitchat at the present time. Looking at it from a game theory point of view, the matter is quite…
So. Charlie gets on at Kendall, heading for Jamaica Plains, which is already a little suspect, as far as I’m concerned. OK, things were different in those days, and he probably wasn’t headed down to J.P. to get Brazilian food,…
Gentle Reader Irilyth asked for Your Humble Blogger’s opinion on rhetoric, to contrast (I think) with somebody’s idea that rhetoric is evil. I don’t want to pretend to argue for Irilyth’s friend, since I have no idea what his actual…
Michael, that Gentlest of Readers responded to my plea for inspiration thusly: Tell me a story about anniversaries, please. Gentle Readers will be aware that I am attached to annual remembrances and observances. Today, for instance, is Flag Day, and…
When Franklin Roosevelt addressed the Congress on January 6, 1941, he had, only a couple of months before, been elected to an unprecedented third term as President. Since then, Hungary and Romania had joined the Axis, the Italians had shown…
Your Humble Blogger has had pretty good luck with Disneyland. I first visited the Magic Kingdom at about the right age, with older siblings to help guide the way, and enjoyed the Alice in Wonderland rides, the teacups, the Carousel,…
Hello again, Gentle Readers. Yes, I was away for a while, but now I’m back, and although I admit myself to have been uninspired lately even while I was blogging, I am hoping that if I plunge back into things,…
This morning, my Best Reader and my Perfect Non-Reader and I all went to our small-town Memorial Day observation. We cheered for our veterans as they marched (some of them marching very neatly, others staggering a bit with age, others…
Most Gentle Readers are aware that the American President has the constitutional obligation to provide the Congress information on the State of the Union, and to recommend policy measures in connection with that information. Our First President determined that such…