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Via a Language Log entry, an attempt on Listable to list the Best Last Lines of English-Language novels. Of course, the Best is “a far, far better thing” from A Tale of Two Cities. This suffers a bit from being…
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XDL, business, noises (off)
Mine Gracious Host recently referred to what he called “that most glorious of stage directions”, repeat play. I don’t know if that’s the most glorious; I have friends who would swear by exit, pursued by a bear, and I am…
no, no, I get to define things, me, I do
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Every now and then, the fact that people are different, one to another, and perceive different universes, still manages to surprise Your Humble Blogger. Manohla Dargis, in a New York Times review of Firewall called An Aging Action Hero With…
tohu bohu note written whilst not sleeping, unless I dozed off and dreamed part of it
A recent article in the New York Times (When All the ‘Greatest Hits’ Are Too Many to Download, by Jeff Leeds) brought to mind the whole music business mess. It seems that, in an utterly unprecedented way, people are now…
complaints, complaints
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Sometimes the writing in the New York Times Arts section just gets right up Your Humble Blogger’s nose. From Chimney Sweep’s World, With No Mary Poppins, an article by Ben Sisario on Colin Meloy: “His lyrics giddily engage a Scrabble…
long, droning, rambling entry with discursive but not altogether illustrative meanders, all about keeping to the point
For the casual reader of Left Blogovia (or, indeed, the causal one, I suppose), it’s become easy to now perceive the scandal about Jack Abramoff, bribery, embezzlement, murder, organized crime, casinos and the Legislature as being, ultimately, not about what…
A blogger’s perogative?
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Five Things I Have Been Persuaded to Change My Mind about Since College: Note: These are not things that I have changed my mind about due to exposure (such as a newfound fondness for Early Music or the realization that…
complexity, of course
I read the op-ed column Attention, Medicare Shoppers in this morning’s New York Times with the combination of outrage and skepticism that Gentle Readers have come to expect. In the piece, Lisa Doggett talks about helping her grandmother save $2,000…
grouchy this morning
James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn have an interesting op-ed in this morning’s Times called No More Second-Term Blues. In it, they argue for the repeal of the 22nd amendment. Now, I’ve been on record as being against term limits…
Madison, again
Your Humble Blogger has kept his pixels shut about the latest report of illegal activity by Our Only President and his cronies. I can’t say I am surprised that Our Only President authorized warrantless wiretapping. After all, aren’t warrants a…