Persecution, not as complex as it might be
In Which Your Humble Blogger expresses outrage, rather than respect.
Category: rhetoric
B-, surrounded by her bastards, innit?
In Which Your Humble Blogger talks dirty to himself.
Sloganeering: It’s not just a good idea, it’s a bucket of crap!
In Which Your Humble Blogger is connected to the next available bullshit artist.
I weep for you, YHB said, I deeply sympathize. Oh, wait, no, I don’t.
In Which another piece of advice is flung to the winds, in the hope that the winds will learn something, and if the winds don’t take my advice, then the winds can blow me.
responsibility without antecedent
In Which Your Humble Blogger lives, just briefly, in a fantasy world of his own devising
All together now, on five
In Which Your Humble Blogger (and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts) takes the rhetorical ball and runs with it.
Again with the exceptionalism
There’s a bit of a fuss, today, in Left Blogovia about Ann Coulter saying what seem to me to be perfectly straightforward things about her theological beliefs. She is a religious exceptionalist; she believes that things would be much better…
Red Meat
Here’s the thing. When they (you know, “they”) talk about throwing a bit of red meat to the base, in YHB’s case the Democratic base, generally it seems to be a very small bit of meat indeed, and has a…
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again
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…
The limitations of persuasion
So, every now and then, I get very cranky about political argument. I think the particular thing I get cranky about is a fairly common source of crank among people who like rhetoric and argument. It’s the lack of persuasiveness….