Kind of an interesting op-ed piece in this morning’s Times. Joshua Foer, a new Bachelor at Yale, writes about the reaction of his classmates to 9/11, to the invasion of Afghanistan, the invasion of Iraq, and the current mess. He…
When Your Humble Blogger can’t think of much to say, it’s time to go around the horn: John Scalzi comes up with the right phrases pretty often. “Personally, what I wish were that it were November so I could cast…
James Rosenthal has a very odd column in this morning’s Times (which requires registration). He is reacting to Lynne Truss’ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by suggesting, it seems, a maximum-tolerance approach to punctuation. “The…
Somehow, Your Humble Blogger missed this news about the American occupation shutting down a weekly newspaper in Baghdad. Shutting down a newspaper. Now, I understand that ‘newspaper’ is a pretty tough term to apply to Al Hawza, which seems to…
I suppose, to maintain my status as an actual blog, I should link to things, now and then. So: The NYT reports that Antigua and Barbado have gained a ruling from the WTO against a US law which prohibits US…
How could NPR sack Bob Edwards? That’s like firing morning! Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t blogged about Our Only President for a nearly a month, now. Why? Well, lots of other people have been doing it for me, and what’s more I can’t face the news coming out of the White…
Well, if you were looking for a reason to watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade all the way to the end, how about Mrs. Claus, “the man in the big red dress,” portrayed by Harvey Fierstein? Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian. OK, it…
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has spoken: the ban on same-sex marriages violates individual liberties and dignities, and violates the Massachusetts Constitution. Go read analyses elsewhere, Your Humble Blogger can’t even think straight at the moment. Hip, hip, HOORAY! Redintegro…
Your Humble Blogger just caught a bit in “Taming the phoenix? Monetary governance after the crisis”, by Benjamin J. Cohen, in The Asian Financial Crisis and the Architecture of Global Finance, edited by Gregory W. Noble and John Ravenhill (©…