It’s the end of another month. In January 2004, Your Humble Blogger managed 39 posts; y’all Gentle Readers obliged me with 106 comments, leaving only 14 commentless posts. These numbers should be compared to December 2004 with 32 posts, 121…
A Gentle Reader who wishes to remain anonymous has contributed the following note. My own response will be posted, as is appropriate, in the comments. Here, I would just like to publicly thank the writer for contributing, and encourage any…
I had been wondering what to title my inevitable post about elections in Iraq, and I think Nathan Newman solved it by giving Two Cheers. That should properly be two cheers and a sigh of relief, so let’s all join…
OK, our public library rocks. Now, Your Humble Blogger had been accustomed to an academic superlibrary before moving to town, and before that the local public was the BPL, which is a great library and all, and was, like, the…
It’s just barely possible that some of my Gentle Readers were unaware that January 26th was Bunny Day, and may still be. It’s not clear if Bunny Day was intended to coincide with LJ Rabbit Hole Day, on the 27th,…
Ruthling’s Rant-O-Matic is propagating a Ranty meme, and although it might well go without saying, I pass it along to my Gentle Readers, suitably modified for the outside-LJ ’sphere. Comment or email with any subject about which you would like…
One of the things I find frustrating about Our Only President is how often he says things I agree with. I found it particularly frustrating in 2000, when nearly every major address was two-thirds stuff I wouldn’t mind saying myself….
Every year, along about this time, I try to note down all the previous year’s movies I’ve managed to see. Your Humble Blogger doesn’t get out very much, so it’s a small list. Some years it gets up to twelve…
Dan (as usual, starting from A Position of Ignorance, and not often enough for my taste) is musing on some ideas for games. He has a fine idea for a central aspect of the game’s strategy, but is looking for…
Nathan Newman has been writing about the courts, evolution, science, intelligent design, and various things that may well be of interest to Gentle Readers. He has a few points that I think are hard to argue and good to note….