The Boston Phoenix leads me to Support Our Ribbons, which not only is a terrific way to support our beleaguered magnetic-ribbon industry, but allows Your Humble Blogger to design his own ribbon. So many choices. My first inclination would be…
Your Humble Blogger was listening to a portion of the local NPR call-in show yesterday afternoon, on which they were talking about the controversial subject of women in combat situations in the military. You know, like that. And one of…
Your Humble Blogger is not so much enamored of the new superblog Talking Points Café, but that’s where Matt Yglesias has taken his blog, so now and then I go over and read. Recently, he pointed me to a piece…
Happy Juneteenth, Gentle Readers all. A hundred and forty years ago yesterday, a man could assault, torture and even kill another man with impunity, as long as the fellow he killed was sufficiently dark-skinned, and as long as the light-skinned…
Your Humble Blogger has been laying off the outrage, of late, in favor of common or garden crankiness, but I now I really must protest. And, in my own imitable style, I must protest at great length, starting with way…
You know those little things that stick in your mind that totally destroy stories? Like how the hell anybody knows what Charles Foster Kane’s last word was anyway, what with him dying, you know, alone? Well, it was just pointed…
Yesterday morning, Your Humble Blogger happened to pass by Town Hall, which is not altogether surprising, as it is a small town, when it comes to that, and the Town Hall is next to the library, the post office, the…
Speaking, as Your Humble Blogger was, of the ability to appreciate the good and the bad together, I wonder whether anybody these days reads the Bre’r Rabbit stories in the magnificent dialect versions of Joel Chandler Harris. Yes, yes, I…
Your Humble Blogger assumes that the person posting the Wimsey Papers has the permission of the Sayers estate so to do, and therefore Gentle Readers interested in Lord Peter, or Dorothy Sayers, can read and enjoy in good conscience these…
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t done a State of the Blog for a while, it seems. The state hasn’t really changed very much, though, which I suppose is a good thing. No news is good news, and the like. I’ve been…