Category: navel gazing

Y’all know that Your Humble Blogger is not a very good driver, so perhaps you can help me out, here. There’s an intersection in Williamsburg called College Corner, or more often Confusion Corner, which is a sort of Y, with…

All-righty, Gentle Readers, I suspect that not a single one of you woke up this morning thinking ‘but what does Vardibidian think of the whole Newsweek brouhaha?’ I hope not, anyway. Still, a bloggists rant should exceed his grasp of…

Your Humble Blogger happened to read an actual paper today. One of the things I really like about that experience is that I read a good deal more of the paper than I otherwise would. One of the things I…

Top Five Instrumentals Before I begin: Would you believe that I had a lot of trouble deciding what counted as an instrumental and what didn’t? For instance, is “Pennsylvania 6-5000” an instrumental? What about all the other songs that have…

It may be difficult for Gentle Readers to believe, but Your Humble Blogger does try not to write about subject on which I am entirely ignorant. One of those things is the corporate media, sometimes called the mainstream media, mostly…

Have you ever wished you were there when, say, the first critic dismissively called a style of blurry paintings that called attention to their brushwork and the surface of the painting rather than a naturalistic depiction of the subject “impressionism”?…

Many of my Gentle Readers are aware of the Time Traveler Convention, which will have been this evening. It was being mentioned on several blogs and journals, mostly with a vaguely entertained and amused air. Your Humble Blogger’s immediate thought,…

Dan, over at Position of Ignorance has written a generic journal entry, which intrigued Your Humble Blogger, and inspired the following (generic) musings. These musings begin, generically, with an examination of a word used in passing by Dan, which he…

Your Humble Blogger will likely have little time for posting in the next week and a half or so. Sorry about that. I will likely post a few times, but I doubt I’ll do any real research and analysis. We’ll…

So. Once again, Mark Shmitt over at The Decembrist has an excellent post, this time on the hoo-hah in today’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee committee meeting. For those not paying attention, instead of passing on the nomination of John Bolton…