Category: navel gazing

Are you ever, Gentle Reader, as you pass through a parking lot glancing at all the magnetically affixed declarations on the back end of the cars, seized with a mischievous impulse to swap ’em all around? I don’t mean making…

Since I no longer hold a copy of the Chronicle in my hand as I ride the BART, but read it on-line, I tend to go back and read Jon Carroll’s columns in bursts of four or five, rather than…

Your Humble Blogger was listening to the BBC this morning, and was surprised to find out that the commission looking in to the fire on the Sabarmati Express which sparked the awful riots in Gujarat two years ago has decided…

I’m sure that my Gentle Readers all have ways to commemorate Martin Luther King Day, each to his own. I think that it could be a mistake to focus too specifically on the man himself, rather than on the issues…

The question is not whether it was or was not a good idea for our government to spend seven million dollars trying to figure out how to make enemy soldiers too hot for each others bods to attend to our…

There’s an odd little article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal called Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers, by William M. Bulkeley and James Bandler, with Jeanne Cummings contributing. It turns out that when Governor Dean’s campaign hired Jerome…

It occurs to me that I’d enjoy doing a State of the Blog for December, although with only 32 entries I have to give myself a pretty substantial break for being out of town. Still, my Gentle Readers contributed a…

An off-hand comment by a reader of the Rhetorica led me to PIPA’s survey of Misperceptions, The Media and The Iraq War, which I had glanced at a year ago. The comment, though, led me to one of the things…

One of my Gentle Readers reminds me that I missed our Liberal Lion roaring at the National Press Club this afternoon. There’s a prepared transcript at Common Dreams and a video at C-Span, which I hope will include the q&a…

Your Humble Blogger was considering writing about Nathan Newman’s latest on Freethinkers, but that didn’t so much happen. Instead, I washed the car. Now, those Gentle Readers who know me are aware that saying I am not a car person…