Congatulations, Denver! For those Gentle Readers who will make sense of how exciting this must have been (we welcome comments from Senator Kerry, who was, you know, there), the Black Bears of Maine were down by one with a minute…
Via John Scalzi’s Whatever, Your Humble Blogger has been listening to “Little Know Ye Who’s Coming”, which is … well, go and listen. Slavery’s comin’, knavery’s comin’, Wonder’s comin’, plunder’s comin’, Jobbin’s comin’, robbin’s comin’ If John Kerry not be…
After a reminder from my Best Reader and also from The American Prospect, Your Humble Blogger just spent an hour listening to Sen. Kennedy’s recent Critique of Administration Policy at the Brookings Institution. Well, watching and listening; C-SPAN has the…
Clearly, my post about a possible Code of Ethics was unclear. Let me try again. I’ll probably sound very defensive, so forgive me; I do understand that my argument may well be wrong. It’s certainly far too long. Before I…
Your Humble Blogger just happened to come across this note, and although I understand almost none of it (and, frankly, am content with that), I did come away with a new respect for the Google enterprise. I’ll see if I…
Your Humble Blogger is getting out the old seder plate. Passover is my favorite holiday; when I talk about those aspects of Judaism that I really enjoy and find fulfillment in, I tend to go back to the haggadah. It’s…
On or about the morning of March 28, Your Humble Blogger put together a blogroll, of sorts. Two of the sites I linked to were Nathan Newman and the Daily Kos. Shortly after I linked to them, both of them…
Your Humble Blogger’s MLB Predictions, brought to you by Vardibidian Predicts—We’re Never Wrong (unless you count factual inaccuracy) NL West NL Central NL East San Diego Houston Philadelphia San Francisco Chicago Florida Arizona St. Louis Atlanta Los Angeles Cincinnati Montreal…
One of the main characters of The Ides of March is Catullus, the damaged, diseased, brilliant, athletic, dying poet. As it happened, Your Humble Blogger had a very nice conversation about Catullus, back in college, concerning the poem that Thornton…
OK, so Your Humble Blogger may as well join the blogofuss. Sasha Issenberg wrote an article in Philadelphia magazine called “Boo-Boos in Paradise.” In the article, he criticizes David Brooks’ article in the December 2001 issue of The Atlantic Monthly…