Category: navel gazing

My Perfect Non-Reader, after twenty minutes or so of dice-rolling: There are a lot of ways to make seven! Oh, yes. Good to learn that one early. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….

OK, so Your Humble Blogger hasn’t been getting much joy out of reading the sports pages lately, and I don’t know why I decided to read Gwen Knapp’s column this morning, as it’s usually dreadful. This week’s is a rambling…

I was asked by Gentle Reader Michael to opine about the recent referenda in France and Holland. The problem is that I really don’t have much of an opinion. I haven’t looked at the constitution in question, and what I…

You know what bugs me? When I buy a nice straw hat for the summer and it rains the day after Memorial Day. That’s what bugs me. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian.   OK, you know what else bugs me? When I…

Our Only President, as instructed by Congress, has proclaimed today a day of prayer of permanent peace, and a day of national remembrance. And, Gentle Readers, if you will excuse my paraphrase, it is altogether fitting and proper that we…

Your Humble Blogger happened to spot an ad recently for a washer and dryer from LG, you know, the company that makes the refrigerator with the television on the front. The cool thing about these, though? A remote monitor. That’s…

Well, and as far as I can tell, the big news of the day is that Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor and Prescilla Owen get lifetime appointments to the federal appeals court, from which it will be hard to describe…

So, it seems to me that the headline Karzai Rejects U.S. Criticism on Opium is just sloppy. I mean, you can’t tell whether it’s Afghanistan’s president who is on Opium or the US critic. Or both. Or whether President Karzai…

Yes, Gentle Readers, you can file this one under “there’ll always be an England.” Or under Top Fives; the fun of the last set made me notice the story. The National Gallery and BBC Radio Four Today are starting a…

OK, how about this: Tom “English Cut” Mahon is giving away an old suit. No, not the shiny one, the blue one. It is, let me emphasize this, a lovely suit, and it would immediately become the favorite suit in…