While I’m talking about, oh, whatever I’m talking about, I’ll refer back to the national discussion about whether Harriet Miers should be confirmed by the Senate to the Supreme Court of the United States. There was an interesting article by…
Well, and one of the time-wasting internet quizzes (which one are you? I’m the meta one) going around is the Fashion Style Test over at OK Cupid, which is actually quite fun to take, in part because the testmaker has…
I picked up The Carpet Makers from the New Book shelf at the local-but-one library, thinking that I probably wouldn’t actually read the thing, but hey, it wasn’t costing me anything. Then I opened it up, and found the first…
Well, and as you know, Your Humble Blogger is fascinated by the art of adapting books into movies, and having at last read Babe the Gallant Pig, I have a new entry for my Top Five Free Adaptations: Babe. The…
Athough I have decided to go ahead and start reading the odd Perry Mason book, I am cautious about trying to read too many too quickly, and overdosing. So I was going to restrict myself to one a month or…
I must admit that as much as I love Horace Rumpole, I’ve never much liked John Mortimer. Now, usually, in something like that, the actor gets all the credit that should by rights go to the author, and I suspect…
One of the things that has been going around the net is Pirates and Emperors, a Chomsky-inspired Schoolhouse Rock style video about how the US is EEEEEEvil. Like a Pirate, see? Or an Emperor. It contains one of the anti-war…
I’m not planning on doing the whole document in such tedious detail, but the opening bits are really chewy. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with…
Can you imagine what it must be like to write for Congressional Quarterly these days? Sam Rosenfeld over at Tapped passes along another note about the absurd and contemptuous manner in which the Grand Old Party conducts their business. Essentially,…
OK, and let me begin by saying that I am no scholar or historian, and that I have only the vaguest ideas of the details of international politics at the end of the eighteenth century. If any Gentle Reader really…