Crazy people don’t actually win at poker
In Which Your Humble Blogger feints one way and goes the other, albeit slowly.
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Pills and Dirty Books for Everybody!
In Which Your Humble Blogger dithers about something that seems fairly straightforward, doesn’t it?
Pundit Makes Blogger Cranky, film at eleven
In Which George F. Will gets so far up Your Humble Blogger’s nose, he’s coming out my ears.
No more golfing, no more cats
In Which Your Humble Blogger mourns the passing of a funny man.
Waste! Fraud! Abuse!
One thing that occurs to me about this S-CHIP business is the extent to which the Republican leadership appears to be mean-spirited. This isn’t anything new; it certainly goes back to Ronald Wilson Reagan and his attitudes towards welfare. The…
Stretching Out or Noodling?
Errol Morris has a blog over at the New York Times, to which he seems to post about once a month. A few days ago, he posted an essay called Which Came First, the Chicken or the Egg? (Part One)….
It’s got a good beat, and I could dance to it if I weren’t so old.
In the business section of this morning’s Times, Brooks Barnes asks Disney Tolerates a Rap Parody of Its Critters. But Why? The background, for Gentle Readers who, like YHB, don’t really get YouTube and popular culture more generally, is that…
If he’s for it, I’m agin it, and veesie versie
Your Humble Blogger doesn’t know anything about the people behind this, but I was pleased to see Shut It Down October 17, 2007 linking anti-war activism to the labor movement (or what’s left of it). I started musing about how…
In ten years, YHB is most likely to be doing laundry
Your Humble Blogger reads over at Matthew Yglesias’sses Atlantic.com blog about the Bizarre Poll Result of the Day. Evidently, it seems, according to Mark Penn, there was a poll of 600 California young-uns, 16-22, calling them on their mobile phones,…
Constitution Day, all week, try the veal, it’s made from slaughtered baby cows brutally confined in two-foot-wide crates.
Your Humble Blogger went to the White House website to find out what Our Only President’s proclamation on Constitution Day would be like. It took me a while to find it, as it was folded into Citizenship Day and Constitution…