… grumble, grumble, stupid Senator, stupid voice mail system, stupid full mailbox, stupid web forms, stupid gang of stupid fourteen. If these stupid voters had just elected the Jew Motherfucker a few years earlier, this never would have happened. Well,…
I’ve been ruminating on blogging this whole Congressional corruption scandal, and it occurred to me that a good starting place is to ask (and, ideally, get the answer to) this question: Gentle Reader, do you have a lobbyist in D.C.?…
Intellectually, I’ve been lucky. Well, and I’ve been lucky in umpty-’leven other ways, as well, and I know that, but at the moment, I’m talking about one specific aspect of my good fortune. When I started being intellectually curious, or…
Well, and this is another case where I want to blog something, but I’m not sure what I have to say about it. The Return of the Ambivalent Blogger, doncha know. Peter Daou, who is at least moderately influential in…
It seems, to borrow the headline from the Danbury (CT) News-Times, that Brookfield church sign sends signal. No, not wireless. Signifies, you understand. Sends a rhetorical signal. As you might expect a sign to do. But Your Humble Blogger brings…
So. About two weeks ago, Your Humble Blogger managed to injure himself badly enough to seek medical care. Having ascertained that nothing was, in fact, broken, the doctor sent me over to a physical therapist, who has been all helpful…
If you have been tooling around Left Blogovia, Gentle Reader, you have probably already seen that Our Only President has made 17 recess appointments, which seems like a lot, taking into account that both houses of Congress are under the…
The last note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. Epilogue: “The Market Cross” No, I’m not going to address this in any detail at all, other than state that it’s annoyingly written, and…
Back in November, Your Humble Blogger mentioned that the local election passed a firehouse bond issue by thirty-four votes. The vote was, in fact, 540-506 in favor. Close, no? Well, the people who did not want to pay so much…
Another note in a series on Is the American Dream Killing You? by Paul Stiles. Chapter Nine, “The Market Curve” OK, I really have to scan in this one and show it to you. It’s on page 240, and Mr….