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….
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…
The spine of The Shootist caught YHB’s eye on the library shelf, mostly because of the movie, of which I had fond memory. For those Gentle Readers who don’t remember or didn’t see the movie, and don’t mind the plot…
A Gentle Reader has asked me to pose the following question to the rest of y’all: what are the best rock/pop/soul/etc. songs about parenthood? It’s a tough one. I thought I would just open up the music player and easily…
A couple of months ago (when I was young) I wrote that I found Mortal Engines very put-down-able, in the sense that I kept putting it down and not getting to it for a day or three. I enjoyed it,…
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 came across Why Royalties? a blognote by Evan Schnittman, who is Vice President of Business Development and Rights for the Academic and USA Divisions of Oxford University Press. He is responding to Richard Charken, CEO of Macmillan…
OK, Laurence J. Kotlikoff in the Boston Globe tells me that We are all uninsured now. Well, OK, that’s not true, only some of us are actually uninsured but the rest of us with health coverage are also uninsured. We…
I was surprised to see that Soon I will be Invincible got such positive reviews. I had picked it up from the library shelf a few times, and put it down again, and actually got it out once and returned…
Adele Stan over at Tapped looks at Richard Viguerie’s Picks for Attorney General, and brings up (and Chris in her comments makes explicit) something that gets right up Your Humble Blogger’s nose. If Senate Democrats fail to use the confirmation…