So. Your Humble Blogger finally got around to watching ‘The Gore Speech’, Al Gore’s May 26 NYU/MoveOn PAC speech. For those who want to watch the whole thing, C-SPAN has it in their video library under Defense/Security, and it’s currently…
Well, and that was May, was it? 30 entries, 35 comments. Twelve of the 30 are Book Reports, which means this is becoming a Book Report blog, which isn’t what I was aiming for. Must actually blog sometime. The good…
Your Humble Reader came across a constantly updated page showing the most recent record entered into Worldcat. It’s kind of hypnotic, and fascinating. When I was watching this morning, I saw a dozen or more that appeared to have their…
Your Humble Blogger will join in the general and genial mockery of Our Only President. Gentle Readers will no doubt be aware that biking-related program activities briefly felled Our Only President. “It’s been raining a lot and the topsoil is…
There’s been a minor hoo-hah over at Kos about whether or not Sen. Kerry’s new slogan/theme “Let America be America Again” is any good or not. [Note on why YHB will never really be a great blogger: while I was…
Your Humble Blogger has been itching to write about the Culture War for a while, now, and Matthew Yglesias’ note over on TAPPED has given me the impetus to at least ramble a bit. Oh, and the minifuror over the…
Your Humble Blogger would like to blame every damn’ thing on Our Current President and his Busheviki, but like everything else, it’s more complicated than that. So when I hear that a company has been treating tents, tarpaulins and other…
So, I was, grudgingly, pleased when Our Only President admitted that the events at Abu Ghraid disgraced him. However, Geoffrey Pullum points out that given (a) President Bush’s difficulty with extemporaneous speaking, (2) his stated position that he feels he…
In shul this morning, Your Humble blogger was singing ‘Oseh shalom bimromav’, as I do every week, and thinking, as I have every week for more than a year, about the meaning of the words. Singing more fervently than I…
Your Humble Blogger had completely forgotten Colin Powell’s role in My Lai. Well, that’s poorly phrased; Colin Powell had no role in the slaughter itself, but, if my recollection, Lexis-Nexis and Google have given me the correct picture, he was…