Well, and the fact that Your Humble Blogger has taken a nice long sabbatical from analyzing political rhetoric must be nice and obvious to Gentle Readers all, and perhaps it’s as much of a relief to y’all as it is…
This Tohu Bohu has been pretty near dormant for a while, Gentle Readers, and it will be a couple of weeks, at a guess, before Your Humble Blogger gets back to rambling at the usual rate. I’ve been busy, almost…
I think I’ve mentioned, here in this Tohu Bohu, that I’m not a Zionist. I think Zionism was a mistake before the Holocaust, and I think it was a mistake as a response to the Holocaust. It was an understandable…
There’s an odd thing about scale. In one sense, it’s terribly easy to adjust to, and difficult to remember that the adjustment has been made. On the other hand, sometimes those adjustments lead to moments of completely warped perspective, when…
Since Your Humble Blogger got provoked by Benjamin Rosenbaum into writing acres of drivel (unlike the usual acres of drivel off my own bat), there has been a good deal of fascinating discussion in various corners about what I perhaps…
This is, of course, a Very Bad Idea, but I can’t help thinking, when my Perfect Non-Reader insists on putting the left shoe on the right foot, that with all the flashing lights and spinning wheels on shoes these days,…
So, for you, Gentle Reader, to grasp the point Your Humble Blogger would like to make, you’ll need a trifle of background about How the Rehearsal Process Works. Those Gentle Readers who are familiar with this sort of thing, and…
Your Blogger has had neither the time nor the energy nor, frankly, the inclination to blog overmuch of late. In part, this is because I am very bad at quick posts, so anytime I think I should post on something…
One of the many nice things about this hand-tooled blog is that comment-spammers had never really thought of it as a blog. It doesn’t look like a blog—or, rather, it doesn’t look like a blog to a machine. Plus, of…
This was written as a response to Benjamin Rosenbaum, to be posted as a comment on his blog, but my blog got jealous. Please respond over there, or, you know, in both places, or what you will, but keep in…