Arrrrrr, me beauties, and ye won’t have forgotten it’s International Talk like a Pirate Day, hey? Or will it be the Cat? In other news, International Talk like an Inside Trader day has been indefinitely postponed. Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Gentle Readers, There’s an interesting couple of posts at Refference, a blog by a fellow named Jeremy Reff, arguing for a more aesthetic approach to political conversation. I’m agin it, myself, but I haven’t any really coherent idea why. I…
The Yale strike is ovah! I’ve no real idea who won, but my goodness, isn’t that a mess. The whole Yale labor thing is a textbook example of how a bad management can encourage a hostile union to be more…
Your Humble Blogger has been terribly busy lately, and both the quantity and quality of entries in this Tohu Bohu are lagging. I apologize for that, and hope to pick it back up quite soon, but in the meantime ……
OK, so my latest read is Judith Shklar’s Ordinary Vices, which treats, oddly enough, of ordinary vices, such as cruelty, hypocrisy, snobbery, betrayal, and misanthropy. I loved the chapter on cruelty (“Putting Cruelty First”, which is based on an article…
There’s an interesting interview with Todd Gitlin and George Monbiot about their books Letters To A Young Activist and The Age of Consent, respectively. I have not read either of the books, not do I know the two authors from…
Well, dog my cats! It’s Cliché Week on Madam and Eve, Your Humble Blogger’s favorite South African English language daily comic strip. OK, it’s my second favorite currently-running strip in the Whole World (after The Boondocks, of course). Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Well, and Your Humble Blogger is sorry about the delay. Much business at work, much news in the personal life, and so on. Still, I have at last finished George Santayana’s essays on Character and Opinion in the United States….
OK, Your Humble Blogger finds this really hard to believe. Of course, my union doesn’t even have that empty space. A couple of years ago on Labor Day, my family went to the Bread and Roses Festival and sang the…
Your Humble Blogger is currently reading George Santayana’s essays on Character and Opinion in the United States. I wasn’t much enjoying it; in part, a lengthy discussion of the virtues and flaws of William James’ philosophy is less enlightening to…