After finishing Kavalier and Clay as a bedtime book, we decided on something much lighter, and went with Eva Ibbotson’s Which Witch. It worked quite well as relief. It’s not Ms. Ibbotson’s best book; it’s aimed at somewhat younger readers…
Your Humble Blogger mentioned our bedtime books some time ago. My Best Reader and myself read aloud a book at bedtime, chapter or so a night, most nights. We have been doing this, on and off, for more than ten…
Your Humble Blogger is now five behind in the Book Reports. I’m going to have to pound through them if I’m going to catch up before taking what I’m guessing will be a week-long blogging break for Thanksgiving. I may…
You know, YHB noted Falwell fighting for holy holiday, by Joe Garofoli in this morning’s Chronicle, and decided to blog about it. But really, I’d just get myself worked up over this whole stupid business. And you know, Mr. Falwell,…
Andele over at Can’t Sleep at Night? makes a good point about the excuse being worse than the admission. Our Only President, he says, has the choice now of either admitting being dishonest about the intelligence or pretending he was…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has fallen behind in Book Reports again. This is, in part, because our computer is suffering from extreme slowness these days, which appears to be the standard for Windows, where after two years so much…
Mine gracious host, Jed, recently gave a few links about copyright and fair use, for which I thank him. As many Gentle Readers are aware, I worked for a few years with issues of education and intellectual property, so I…
Last year, Your Humble Blogger came up with a cool Oscars game and then never got any players. Well, and I tell a lie; I got one player, but one player doesn’t make a game. Anyway, as I was grousing…
No comment from Your Humble Blogger on the report, in College Leaders’ Earnings Top $1 Million by Michael Janofsky in this mornings NYT, that John R. Silber of Boston University made $1,253,352 last year. People who care about this sort…
Your Humble Blogger’s house has been a Prius house for three months now, more or less, so perhaps it’s a good time to say a few things about it. The below should be taken as one fellah’s feelings, and Gentle…