Your Humble Blogger was surprised to read in the Hartford Courant this morning that General Petraeus had been Changing The Debate: WASHINGTON – The report and proposed troop drawdown Gen. David H. Petraeus offered Monday opened a new phase in…
Here’s a couple of paragraphs from Free-Market Mischief in Hot Spots of Disaster, by Patricia Cohen in this morning’s New York Times. It’s about The Shock Doctrine, a book by Naomi Klein, or about Naomi Klein, or about the short…
Your Humble Blogger would like to congratulate Moira Cameron for becoming a Member of the Sovereign’s Body Guard of the Yeoman Guard Extraordinary. I didn’t know that to become a Beefeater, a person must have at least 22 years exemplary…
Your Humble Blogger can’t help pointing to a story of a Jumbo romance. It seems that a wild bull elephant in musth broke into a travelling circus and fled with four beautiful and well-trained lady elephants. Three of the strays…
Last winter, Your Humble Blogger sort of defended Germaine Greer, well, not so much defended as failed-to-join-in-mockery-of, on the occasion of her being awarded a Golden Bull for blathering about art and the unsynthesised manifold. In today’s Guarniad, however, Ms….
One criticism of Our Only President back when he was just One Candidate for the Republican Party’s Nomination was that he was … intellectually incurious. On the other hand, he spoke fluent Spanish! Or, well, no, he didn’t really. Anyway,…
You know, I hate to apologize for the Democratic Party, particularly when I think they did the wrong thing. But you know what I might do if I were Harry Reid and I were really clever? I might publicly withdraw…
A quick note, Gentle Readers, pointing out a column in this morning’s New York Times by Michael Kinsley called We Try Harder (but What’s the Point?) that details some of the 17 (or 18, depending on how you count) times…
Your Humble Blogger has been more or less following the argle-bargle about newspapers and their book review sections, and the petition, and all. It was very odd when it became (from the blogosphere’s point of view) a kerfuffle about how…
So, according to the Press of Atlantic City, the AP, and the New York Times, Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey will pay his own medical costs stemming from a car accident. Gov. Corzine is, of course, immensely rich, and…