Category: navel gazing

Your Humble Blogger is not, as it happens, a huge fan of Geov Parrish, but I found a recent column of his on the Working for Change site very provocative. I’m not a libertarian on the drug issue; I approve,…

Your Humble Blogger has, as my Gentle Readers will be aware, recently spent a good deal of time attempting to understand the conservative mindset. I don’t really know how well I succeeded, but I do feel I understand it a…

Your Humble Blogger missed the news, somehow, but John Dunlop has died. I never met the man, but he was incredibly influential in how business, labor and higher education interact (not that he was to blame, really). Harvard’s Trade Union…

An illustrative anecdote from a recent union meeting: Our Leader had a string of very successful telephone negotiations shortly after beginning to bring her baby in to work with her. At first, she thought little Mae was just good luck,…

Some days, more than others, it’s hard to have faith in people. And, therefore, in democracy. The only good news is that turnout was … well, it didn’t stink. There are 21,833,141 people in the State of California who are…

Well, and it’s Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the Day of Judgement, the Day of Mercy. Your Humble Blogger hasn’t had a very successful High Holiday period, as far as introspection goes, but a couple of lines caught my…

Ed Gray, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald, has come out of the closet. Good for him. For those of you not familiar with Boston and its newspapers, the Boston Herald is the tabloid-sized paper, and the Globe is…

I mean, morally? I have held for some years that misanthropy is essentially a sin. Humans are made in the image of the Lord, and to hold them in contempt is to hold the Lord in contempt. Still further, to…

Sometimes, Your Humble Blogger doesn’t come across an article until it’s too late to link to it. Usually, I’ll just mention it to people within earshot. But I liked this piece by Geoffrey Nunberg enough to seek out his web…

One of my favorite bloggers, Nathan Newman recently wrote a piece about the rhetoric of the Left in the wake of Our Only President’s disastrous decision to invade Iraq. As some of my Gentle Readers will recall, I was ambivalent…