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…
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,…
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…
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…
YHB went through Justice Hall again. What to say about it this time… Mostly that there is little in life that is better than reading a novel whilst mostly immersed in a warm bath. Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus, -Vardibidian….
Your Humble Blogger did not read Peter Pan in Scarlet under ideal conditions. Well, and the conditions at the beginning were terrific: it was a Bedtime Book, read aloud, a chapter a night, with YHB and the Best Reader alternating…
It’s Rosh Hashanah time, Gentle Readers, which is the New Year of the Jewish Calendar, a time of reflection, meditation and resolution, or as the liturgy states, a time of prayer, return to the proper path, and charity. Y’all know…
Benjamin Rosenbaum has made a Lazyweb Request for people with mad graphic design skillz to make up posters parodying the rather nasty SVP “black sheep” poster of which you may have heard. Or not, depending on what news you get….
As a postscript to the earlier conversation—we were looking for rock/pop songs, etc, and I think it’s a good idea to keep Children’s Music out of that whole discussion. There is a lot of good Children’ s Music out there,…
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…