Here come the Candidates!
Well, and Your Humble Blogger is finally ready to start posting these notes about the candidates. I thought it would take a week, and it took a month. I’m hoping for lots of discussion, so I thought I’d lay out…
Category: navel gazing
Selected Letters of Rebecca West
Among the books I’ve been reading lately is the Selected Letters of Rebecca West (New Haven: Yale University Press © 2000). It’s vilely edited and annotated, and any of these one-sided books is frustrating anyway, but Dame Rebecca turns out…
Really changing management
Your Humble Blogger has been spending lots of time in Union stuff this week. I find it fascinating, and I’m really curious about how a particular paradox will play out. You see, I’m in a New Union (or whatever we…
Changing the Promotion of Developing Management
Hmph. Sometimes, things that tickle Your Humble Blogger go sadly uncelebrated, and disappear into the snows of yesteryear with only my uncertain memory to remark their passing. At the moment, our society is, reluctantly, losing ground on the buzzword front,…
Another Independence Day note
Your Humble Blogger just read Michael Kazin’s lengthy and provocative article about A Patriotic Left. It’s got quite a bit to chew on, and I suspect I will wind up disagreeing with much of it, once I’ve got a chance…
It’s the Fourth of July!
Well, and happy Independence Day, Gentle Readers all. It’s been some 237 years since the residents of this region declared themselves independent from their nonresident government, and, oddly enough, made it stick. When the rebellion succeeded, they managed to putter…
Tohu Bohu endorses Naxos Records, without compensation
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By the way, for those of you not familiar with the Naxos label, they not only have a tremendous selection of quality recordings at terrific prices, they also have Naxos Radio, to which Your Humble Blogger is listening right now….
Redintegro Iraq, says Bush
Our Only President made some remarks yesterday about the rebuilding of Iraq. He did, to his credit, say that “The rise of Iraq as an example of moderation and democracy and prosperity is a massive and long-term undertaking.” He appeared…
Gosh, look at the calendar
Your Humble Blogger was aware that he had been slacking, but was startled to discover that there were only two entries in the last two weeks. Sorry about that. I have, y’all will be overjoyed to hear, been working just…
States shall not outlaw homosexuality
No link to the full text yet, but it appears that the Supreme Court has decided Lawrence v. Texas, and that they struck down the law banning sodomy. Whoo hoo! Take that, Mr. not-yet-a-Justice Ashcroft! Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….