Category: navel gazing

Heigh-ho, Gentle Readers. Your Humble Blogger is still in the throes of ISP heck. I’ve decided to stop in at my fine local library and post a post or two from my absurd backlog. As my access will be intermittent…

Ok, Gentle Readers, this time my service provider assures Your Humble Blogger that service will be forthcoming by Monday at the latest. Perhaps Monday evening. Redintegro, Iraq,-Vardibidian….

Do not despair, Gentle Readers all; Your Humble Blogger hasn’t given up the Tohu Bohu. It’s just taking a while to get back on line. Next week, I hope. Redintegro Iraq, -Vardibidian….

It’s more or less solstice time, and I am reminded of how much I like the Daylight Savings we get every summer (if we live where Daylight is Saved). Today in Boston (to pick a city at random), the sun…

An odd little thing that came to Your Humble Blogger’s attention—the big health-care cost-sharing study Free For All? Lessons from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press © 1993), which made a big public-policy impact in the eighties,…

Your Humble Blogger needn’t add to the blogosphere’s cacophony on the News of the Day. I won’t speculate, publicly anyway, about the effect of the capture of Saddam Hussein on either the Ba’athist resistance or the Shi’ite resistance, on domestic…

Your Humble Blogger is aware that the quality and quantity of the notes in the Tohu Bohu has been lacking lately. It’s likely to get worse before it gets better. Your Humble Blogger will be changing residence, principal employment, internet…

OK, so the US is spending money in Iraq. Not much, really, but fine. There is $18.6M in contracts being bid out by, well, by the Pentagon, basically. The Department of Defense, on behalf of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Stop…

Eric Alterman, whom Your Humble Blogger finds consistently interesting and provocative, has a particularly interesting entry today about John Kerry. I think it’s worth reading, despite my current feeling that Sen. Kerry has no more chance of being the nominee…

Your Humble Blogger has not yet finished Whitehall, by Peter Hennesy (New York: Free Press © 1989), and perhaps never will. I’m a good deal less than halfway through, in fact, just learning about the actual workings of cabinet government….