Sometimes it’s a good idea, when debating policy, to go back and try to define, as best you can, the exact nature of the problem you are attempting to alleviate. In health care, it seems to me the problem is…
There was an odd minor foofaraw in Left Blogovia recently when Mark Schmitt suggested that we all refer to the junior senator from New York as Senator Clinton, “without exception”. The response, generally, is that as long as her campaign…
As has become more or less the rule, Your Humble Blogger watched six movies in theaters over the last year. I suspect that at least some of the movies in question will not be nominated for any Academy Awards this…
Some Gentle Readers may have been wondering whether I have given up the Book Reports. Some Gentle Readers may actually have been hoping that I had given up the Book Reports, I suppose. In fact, Your Humble Blogger hasn’t been…
Your Humble Blogger watched the movie The Wrong Guy t’other night. It’s a clever little low-budget Canadian comedy from the late nineties, written by and starring Dave Foley and David Anthony Higgins and directed by David Steinberg. It’s odd, though,…
For Gentle Readers who don’t follow the Our Only President Outrages day to day, but like to have a small hissy fit in the privacy of Your Humble Blogger’s Tohu Bohu, may I pass along a juicy one? It seems…
Your Humble Blogger’s computer blew up. It’s not so bad, and we are warming ourselves at the electrical fire, but it does mean that I am blogging from an seven-year-old iBook like some sort of wild animal in the wilderness….
Song of Songs, Chapter Five, verse one: I am come into my garden, my sister, [my] spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my…
As it happens, Your Humble Blogger was recently reminded of the DeSilva, Brown and Henderson song “Button Up Your Overcoat”, with its famous chorus Button up your overcoat/when the wind is free/take good care of yourself/you belong to me. And,…
Well, and I have read the speech Our Only President gave last night, and I tried, I really did, to come up with a way to analyze the rhetoric of it. It’s clearly a bad speech, a defensive speech, and…