Jere7my passes along a LJ ‘meme’, which, for no very good reason, I’ve decided to do. Having done it, I’m posting it here, also for no very good reason. The suggestion is this: Shuffle your current playlist and write down…
Last year, when Your Humble Blogger found that he had missed Loyalty Day, it was the occasion for a note about the recent Loyalty Day proclamations, and what they revealed about Our Only President and his immediate predecessor. This year’s…
Happy May Day, Gentle Readers all! Not a very good April for this Tohu Bohu, I’m afraid. 27 entries, including a weeklong gap for a family emergency, with 48 comments (including four in April for notes previously entered). That’s down…
It seems Your Humble Blogger will need a new tag line. Just when Your Humble Blogger was starting to feel the slightest bit chipper, there comes a new round of awful news. For those not paying attention, well, good luck…
In looking for inspiration, Your Humble Blogger went back to Our Only President’s speech of the 17th March, 2003. This was the 48 hour ultimatum, the final speech before the invasion of Iraq. I didn’t find any inspiration for an…
Via Alas, a Blog, a fascinating article by Lawrence Lessig on the Copyright Term Extension Act, and his role in a challenge to it. If you’re not familiar with Prof. Lessig, he argued against the act before the Supreme Court,…
via Jere7my, via Geoffrey Nunberg, YHB came across this essay by Whitney Pastorek in the Village Voice. No point, just entertained. “Something is going horribly wrong, and I have finally traced the problem to its source: blogs.” Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
It seems odd now, but a year ago, more or less, people were saying that the anti-war faction had been proved wrong by events. I wrote a note at the time, detailing what I saw as the four major camps…
Your Humble Blogger read Late Night Thoughts of a Defeatist at the recommendation of Atrios, and now recommends it to Gentle Readers all. The highlight, for me, was the point that if the invasion of Iraq is a battle in…
Your Humble Blogger found Easily Distracted fairly recently, and it’s an interesting blog of lengthy, rambling, high-falutin’ Big Thinks. I’m not, on the whole, in agreement with a lot of his conclusions, and furthermore I’m not particularly interested in a…