While away this past weekend, Your Humble Blogger went to the Lincoln Memorial. It’s an impressive thing, made only somewhat obnoxious by the strange idea that people had a hundred years ago that to make a thing impressive, you should…
Ezra over at Pandagon directed me to Bradford Plumer’s blog, where I read an interesting post on the ten commandments which appears to have been initially set off by an article in Slate. Mr. Plumer points out that whatever the…
Your Humble Blogger will be traveling this weekend, so there will probably not be any new notes. I’m caught up with books, anyway. Oh, and I said to my Best Reader after the joint press appearance last night that I…
Well, and t’other day, Your Humble Blogger happened to be listening To the Best of Our Knowledge (a fine show distributed by PRI), and the theme this show was presidential humor and, well, I missed most of it, as usual,…
One of the things about these joint public appearances is that there’s a fellow who keeps asking questions. Sometimes, the candidates answer the questions, or at least respond to them. I’ve pasted below just the questions asked by Jim Lehrer…
One way to think about the performances during these joint press appearances is to imagine whether the individuals are happy or regretful later that night. For instance, it’s pretty hard to imagine John Kerry anything other than jubilant after last…
I’ve always wondered why the Kangaroo made such a big deal of Horton hearing the Who. I mean, yes, the elephant’s clearly crazy, but so what? Why bother going to so much trouble, with the black-bottomed eagle, and the beazle-nut…
A couple of quick links related to international relations, and so on… I don’t actually endorse much of what the anonymous writer of this Salon article is saying about the State Department, but I like this quote: “Powell is leaving….
Yes, it’s the tentative return of the Tohu Bohu Book Club, discussing the fourth chapter of Better Together. We started with the Introduction, and had a good start on that, then had another interesting discussion about Valley Interfaith and house…
I have a couple of points to make about the joint press appearance, none of which is particularly interesting or important, but then there are other places to go for that. First, the most entertaining part, for YHB, was watching…