Sometimes, it seems, an umpire will blow a call. It’s happens. These things are, in fact, part of the game. And sometimes, when an umpire blows a call we can tell, sitting at home, that the umpire blew the call….
This is, I think, the last bit of the interview meme. 1. What kinds of non-alienated labor do you regularly engage in? (And is the liturgical meaning of “avodah” relevant in this context?) Ufff. I am thinking about this, and…
Your Humble Blogger feels that it is somehow incumbent on him to comment on the story of the Dobriches of Georgetown, Delaware. Or formerly of Georgetown, Delaware, as they have moved following increasing Christian proselytizing in the Georgetown public school,…
No, I’m still working on answering questions, like I said in Part V. 2. If you, thought-experiment-wise, had to convert to another religion, what religion would it be? I’m going to answer this twice, I think, because I have two…
Hmf. Your Humble Blogger hasn’t Reported on a Book for lo these many, and was behind for a while before that, so it’s been quite some weeks since Curse of Chalion was finished. And since it was the third (or…
What’s all this about? Start with Part V, like I did. 3. If you, thought-experiment-wise, had to convert to another biological phylum, what biological phylum would it be? Well, and echinoderms don’t have brains, but they do have the cool…
See Part V of this interview for the explanation, or for an explanation, anyway. 4. How do you feel about nationalism and its interaction with culture? Is real-world political power useful, inevitable, corrupting, redemptive, any combination of these, for a…
The great bloggist Benjamin Rosenbaum fell into that “interview me” meme, and as I was waiting for some sort of inspiration to go back to blogging, and as Benjamin Rosenbaum is capable of thought-provoking-ositiage on a scale unparalleled in the…
Your Humble Blogger was thinking this morning, whilst perusing the aftermath of the debate between the candidates for Democratic nomination for Senator here in my home state, that we might just be getting near the point where television ads are…
Your Humble Blogger was musing about what to write about, this Independence Day, and did that self-serving blogger thing and looked at my own posts from past Independence Days. I was struck by something Gentle Reader Chris Cobb wrote in…