I’ve been ruminating on blogging this whole Congressional corruption scandal, and it occurred to me that a good starting place is to ask (and, ideally, get the answer to) this question: Gentle Reader, do you have a lobbyist in D.C.?…
Intellectually, I’ve been lucky. Well, and I’ve been lucky in umpty-’leven other ways, as well, and I know that, but at the moment, I’m talking about one specific aspect of my good fortune. When I started being intellectually curious, or…
It’s been quite a while since I had gotten into a book so much that I was, when out doing something enjoyable, eager to get back home and back inside the novel. This happened with The Hallowed Hunt, the latest…
Well, and I finally found a Studs Terkel book that didn’t knock me out. Well, and there were bits in And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey that were pretty terrific, actually, but they were fewer and…
Well, and this is another case where I want to blog something, but I’m not sure what I have to say about it. The Return of the Ambivalent Blogger, doncha know. Peter Daou, who is at least moderately influential in…
OK, Gentle Readers, here is The Horn Book, as actually burnt to a disc by Your Humble Blogger: Song TitleArtistAlbumTime Ring Of FireJohnny CashClassic Cash2:45 I Can’t Turn You LooseOtis ReddingOtis! The Definitive Otis Redding (Disc 2)2:45 I Prefer YouEtta…
Five Things I Have Been Persuaded to Change My Mind about Since College: Note: These are not things that I have changed my mind about due to exposure (such as a newfound fondness for Early Music or the realization that…
It seems, to borrow the headline from the Danbury (CT) News-Times, that Brookfield church sign sends signal. No, not wireless. Signifies, you understand. Sends a rhetorical signal. As you might expect a sign to do. But Your Humble Blogger brings…
So. About two weeks ago, Your Humble Blogger managed to injure himself badly enough to seek medical care. Having ascertained that nothing was, in fact, broken, the doctor sent me over to a physical therapist, who has been all helpful…
I read the op-ed column Attention, Medicare Shoppers in this morning’s New York Times with the combination of outrage and skepticism that Gentle Readers have come to expect. In the piece, Lisa Doggett talks about helping her grandmother save $2,000…