I don’t have much to say about it, but there’s an article by Mark Katz, who gave Bill Clinton jokes, over at the Washington Monthly. It’s got a very funny description of what went through his mind when he first…
Gentle Readers, I suspect if you like reading this Tohu Bohu, you are likely to enjoy reading Rhetorica, a blog by Andrew Cline. This morning’s note is about the peculiarity of the importance, in presidential campaigns, of hundreds of thousands…
Your Humble Blogger went from Carnap’s Livejournal to a convincing visual display of a predictable idea: liberals buy liberal books, and conservatives buy conservative books. If you are interested in the methodology, I suggest you look at last year’s version,…
Your Humble Blogger was listening to NPR’s All Thing Considered today and found one of the stories fascinating: Turkish Eid Holiday Gets Modern Feel This week, Turkey celebrates Kurban Bayram. The Muslim holiday normally features people buying rams and other…
Well, and I was going to analyse the Democratic response to the State of the Union as well. I could, I suppose, follow my earlier note and note the context of the word ‘peace’ whenever it appears. Twice. “America’s armed…
Just for kicks, Your Humble Blogger looked at the instances of the word ‘peace’ in Our Only President’s recent report to Congress on the State of the Union. It’s one of those hot words; when a nation is at war…
Your Humble Blogger received his new Voter Registration card today [Note: last week sometime?]. The apparatus of democracy always moves me. Yes, that’s because Your Humble Blogger is, at heart, a goofball. One could also assign psychological meaning; my mother,…
[The following was written on Tuesday, January 20, while the news was fresh] Well, and Sen. Kerry won Iowa, with Sen. Edwards second, Dr. Dean a distant third, and Rep. Gephardt nowhere. Rep. Gephardt has withdrawn his name from consideration;…
Heigh-ho, Gentle Readers all. I won’t waste your time (or mine) whining about the customer service of a certain internet and telephone service provider; it’s over now, and I should be able to get back up to speed pretty quickly….
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has internet access at last. With luck, I’ll be posting daily (at least) starting tomorrow. For now, I think I’ll just give a couple of rubbishy quotes from some imbecile blogger: “… Sen. Kerry has…