American Venice
OK, if you want to know the difference between the two parties, how about this. If, when Bruce Babbitt talks about rebuilding New Orleans as an American Venice, you feel your breath catch a little, and your eyes get dreamy,…
Category: NYTimes
what do you call that act?
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t done any rhetorical analysis in ages, in part because, well, I can’t really listen to Our Only President and The Aristocrats with any objectivity at all. And what with one thing and another, I haven’t put…
Another common tragedy
I made a note of John Tierney’s column in this morning’s Times, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why I thought this piece of drivel was worth blogging. It’s called The Road to Hell Is Clogged…
posted anonymously, because I’m a dog
OK, for those who have been following the hoo-hah about anonymity and its motives, a quote from this morning’s New York Times, in Skirmish Over a Query About Roberts’s Faith, by David D. Kirkpatrick: “The discussion was described by two…
Independence, Justice, Modesty
As Gentle Readers may have sensed, Your Humble Blogger is not paying quite as close attention to matters national and international as I might were I not packing up house. I haven’t much to say about Our Only President’s choice…
I heard it let you down
In a desperate attempt to refrain from making the obvious post about Snapple’s little popsicle problem, Your Humble Blogger presents this partial lyric from the Boomtown Rats: Snap me in your breach, I want to be your bullet I want…
Meta, but not in that interesting and amusing way
One of the reasons I’m blogging so slowly lately is that the really complicated stuff I have found interesting over the last few days remains in a muddle, and I have little idea how to write about it at all,…
Fish, barrel, content
Stanley Fish’s a column in this morning’s New York Times is Devoid of Content. No, that’s the headline. Now, it’s like shooting, um, well, look, I’m trying really hard not to be too snarky, OK? Prof. Fish doesn’t make it…
what’s the point?
In this morning’s New York Times, there’s a not-yet-pay-per-view guest column by Matt Miller called Honor Thy Teacher, which suggests spending rougly $30 billion nationally on increasing the salaries of teachers in impoverished elementary school districts, in exchange for two…
Pape, Friedman, Times
The news that the New York Times will soon charge for access to its op-ed and opinion pages (as well as its other columnists) reminds me to whinge about yesterday’s lineup while the only thing required is registration. And I…