It’s possible that Gentle Readers have been waiting for YHB to chime in about the joint press conferences held by the candidates for the two Parties’ nominations for President. Sadly, no. I read the transcripts, and there was nothing there…
Your Humble Blogger has been more or less following the argle-bargle about newspapers and their book review sections, and the petition, and all. It was very odd when it became (from the blogosphere’s point of view) a kerfuffle about how…
My discovery today at Wadsworth Atheneum was an artist named Joseph Smolinski. He had three pieces showing. One was a version of the Charter Oak that would probably only be funny to Connecticutters. Such as Your Humble Blogger, who found…
A question for Gentle Readers, and I know I’ve asked this before… do any of y’all use book catalog software? Your Humble Blogger is about to move residences again, and thus are changing insurance coverage again, and this time I…
A recent Pew Center poll has been making the rounds of the blogosphere, and it does have some interesting things. What Left Blogovia is chattering about is that (self-identified) Republicans have told Pew’s pollsters that they think Sen. Clinton is…
OK, for the last day of April, since I haven’t any ideas, let’s go back to an old standard, the lyrics game. I print the opening lyric to twenty songs randomly selected from the top of my shuffle, and Gentle…
While Your Humble Blogger doesn’t feel compelled to note in this Tohu Bohu every movie watched, now and then we watch enough to pile up some comments… I was disappointed that Bandidas wasn’t more fun. It was fun, but it…
Your Humble Blogger first read The Golden Compass perhaps five years ago and thought it was magnificent. I was knocked out, blown away and utterly, um, pleased. I read The Subtle Knife shortly after, and it was quite good, although…
So, according to the Press of Atlantic City, the AP, and the New York Times, Governor Jon Corzine of New Jersey will pay his own medical costs stemming from a car accident. Gov. Corzine is, of course, immensely rich, and…
A lot of attention yesterday given to a project called ED in ’08 which has as its goal “to ensure that the nation engages in a rigorous debate and to make education a top priority in the 2008 presidential election.”…