For what it’s worth, a partial list of women who Your Humble Blogger feels would be better suited to be the First Woman President than Senator Clinton, both from the point of view of actually governing the country and from…
Clearly, Your Humble Blogger will never again have the opportunity to devote a period of sustained concentration to thinking, or for that matter to typing. I am just about able to bookmark the odd thing of interest, to indicate to…
Gentle Readers will remember that the Tohu Bohu Code of Ethics prevent my saying anything much about a book written by a personal friend other than to speculate about the chances that said book will make said friend Rich and…
So, I am aware that Timothy, or notes of an abject reptile got all kinds of positive notice, and that lots of people like it and all, but not me. Bits of it are nicely written, sure, and there is…
I was alternately amused and disappointed in Mark Dunn’s Zounds! A Browser’s Dictionary of Interjections. It has a lot of fun stuff (including cartoons by Sergio Aragonés, who is evidently still alive), but a lot of omissions and errors, as…
Have you noticed, Gentle Reader, that there doesn’t seem to be anybody in Our Only President’s administration who has any future in the Republican Party? I mean, you never know, but it sure looks like Condoleeza Rice and Michael Chertoff…
I never read any of the Freddy books as a youth. I don’t know why. I suspect that the local library failed to stock them. A family friend gave our Perfect Non-Reader Freddy Goes to Florida, which we read as…
So. Perhaps it’s because I was pinched as a schoolboy for not wearing green on the 17th of March, but I really don’t get St. Patrick’s Day. I didn’t want to down anyone’s party (well, except the upstairs neighbors’) on…
I assume y’all are familiar with the concept of the Blog Carnival. I am not altogether keen on them, myself, as they too readily achieve their main purpose, which is to con you into reading Yet More Blogs, which is…
In case any Gentle Reader has difficulty keeping track of which Dick Francis is which, and I can’t imagine why you would, High Stakes is the toymaker one. And for those having difficulty keeping track of which publisher is which,…