The first time I voted for President was in 1988; I cast my absentee ballot for Michael Dukakis, and watched him go down to bitter defeat. There were many, many reasons for that defeat, but the moment I remember thinking…
I wasn’t going to write another note today, but I do want to draw the attention of any interested parties to the Report of the Communion Subgroup to the Primates Meeting of the Anglican Communion. The short version is given…
So, if it’s OK with y’all, Gentle Readers, I’m just going to fling at you a bunch of things I thought were interesting to post about, but which I haven’t actually written a post about: There are some interesting things…
So, tragically, when I at last sat down to read The Iliad, it turned out to be a crap translation by E.V. Rieu, and it was nigh on unreadable. Honestly, I don’t know why I persevered. I suppose it was…
I hope that Gentle Readers aren’t paying too much attention to the news these days (other than the news out of Spring Training camp), but the problem with paying a little attention to the news is that you can get…
My only complaint about Seven Professors of the Far North is that when you have seven professors, each with a specialty, and they are trapped north of the Arctic, I expect each professor to contribute something from his or her…
I have been asked to look at the recent announcement speech Barack Obama gave, and I should tell you, Gentle Readers, that as I was not knocked out by Sen. Obama’s 2004 DNC keynote speech as much as everybody else…
As we get into the Presidential race, there’s a lot of hoo-hah about which candidates where Correct and which were Incorrect about the invasion. The top tier in my Party includes one candidate who was agin from the beginning, but…
My general comment about Robert Silverberg’s stuff is that the world-creation is fantastic, and that the plots are handled moderately well but tend to fall apart before the end, and that the people aren’t terribly memorable. As a result, I…
One thing that is fascinating (to YHB, at least) about the Victorian and Edwardian children’s fantasists is that they are working in a fairy-tale tradition that is very heavily invested in the monarchy, and many of the writers are opposed…