Your Humble Blogger keeps intending to write a post inspired by one or another of Mark Shmitt’s posts at his magnificent blog, the Decembrist. I suppose it’s a flaw in his wonderful essays that they don’t leave me feeling I…
Over at the Position of Ignorance, Dan calls me on the use of ‘pure’ as a general positive. No, it’s not actually All About Your Humble Blogger, but since the word shows up five times in my last post, I’ll…
A thread over at Baseball Primer that I had dismissed as worthless degenerated into a pissing match that would have stretched the limits of worthlessness even as applied to the internet, where Replacement Level is measured in Godwins, if it…
I wasn’t going to comment on the discussion of coffee sizes at Starbucks, inspired by a Dave Barry column and still ongoing, but somehow I feel I need to. Perhaps I still haven’t gotten over being told by a Starbucks…
November, oddly enough, seems like it wasn’t a bad month for this Tohu Bohu of ours. I wrote 45 entries, which is quite a few more than previous months (Oct-34, Sept-37, Aug-22). Of those, only nine were Book Reports, so…
In today’s news from an alternate universe, Renzo Piano has been chosen to build the addition to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Right, right. On the other hand, I scoffed when the MFA announced their Norman Foster-designed New…
Well, and first of all, of course, I am thankful for my Best Reader, and for my Perfect Non-Reader, and for you Gentle Readers all. Next, I’m thankful for John Carroll’s annual Thanksgiving column. After that, I’m thankful for everything…
I’d just like to remind any Gentle Reader who may be thinking about participating in the Oscars game that the time has come to send me your initial picks, as you can tell from the rules. Thank you,-Vardibidian….
Since my blathering has pushed the note off the main page, I feel it only fair to point back to my report on The Skinner, as someone purporting to be Neal Asher has responded to my mockery. To save y’all…
Gentle Reader, how many times have you asked yourself “Who really is the best scientist ever?” And did you then realize, Gentle Reader, that you have absolutely no knowledge base that would help you answer that question? Well, how about…