Well, and having written the easy note about the topic of discussion, YHB feels it necessary to write the hard one about the discussion itself. Look, nothing particularly terrible happened. On the other hand, reading the comments section of any…
Your Humble Blogger stumbled on to a topic of substantial personal interest for a few Gentle Readers, and although the discussion was fruitful, it degenerated to the point where I would be inclined to let it lie. We were, if…
YHB has at last opened up some of the boxes of books and filled a few shelves. The comfort books have come out. I was surprised by how not-awful it was to live without them, but it’s much nicer to…
The flossings will continue until hygiene improves: it’s Talk Like a Pirate Dentist Day again. Wider, ye lily-livered land-lubber, wider! chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian. Post Script: Arrr, and PZ “Hawk of Damnation” Myers over at Pharyngula, sorry, Pharrrrryngula, is automating his…
OK, my own personal Top Five Constitutional Provisions: Article 2, Section 2: …[The President] shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court,…
Jed’s comment down in the Balls and Strikes convo has tipped me into saying a few things about the nomination process for Judge Roberts. Let’s start with his question: So, say a conservative President, with a conservative-dominated Congress in session,…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has fallen into the Make A Word game, spending too much time and wrist muscle at its challenge. I’m not terribly good at it. I did, once, get a Grand Master level score, but as…
The metaphor employed by Judge Roberts reminded me of the old joke about three old umpires talking over a few beers. “There’s balls and there’s strikes,” says one of them, “and I calls them as I sees ’em.” The second,…
Here’s my question: should I finish reading Conqueror’s Moon? Here’s the thing: Julian May has written a few books that I liked very much, a few more that I thought were pretty good, and a few that I thought were…
You know, Gentle Reader, how there’s this whole thing where apologists for Our Only President and his aristocrats imply that the people who were still in New Orleans when Katrina hit were morons, and the response of Left Blogovia is…