I assume that Ezra Klein is essentially kidding around when he calls for doing away with political speeches. “Not the televised sort,” he adds, although it’s not clear to me at all what distinction there is between a televised sort…

My Perfect Non-Reader as part of a Literacy Challenge (perhaps YHB should begin referring to her as My Perfectly Literate Non-Reader) received a homework assignment on Antonyms. Excellent, thought I to myself, antonyms are interesting and fun, and reasonably well-suited…

When looking for something to blog about, the simplest way to get inspiration is to read something really annoying, and then blog about how annoyed you are. No, I didn’t pick David Ignatious’’ss mind-bogglingly stupid op-ed that my local paper…

Your Humble Blogger just read Charlie Stross’s essay on Shaping the Future, which has some things in it that are quite interesting and provoking. In a general sort of way, I think he makes the mistake that people tend to…

Your Humble Blogger is uninspired these days, so here are a few items about which I might have blogged: Matthew Yglesias, now blogging and playing right field for The Atlantic, blogs about Sturgeons Law and the Internet. “The crux of…

So. Your Humble Blogger had been wanting to write about what happens when there is a news story about people saying things that the news can’t report. I’m not talking about defense secrets, here, I’m talking about cursing, racist epithets…

So, it’s well known that Senators have to run away from their records as much as they can run on them. That’s perhaps inevitable, given the nature of legislating, and it’s also a function of the vicious anti-Washington nastiness that…