averaging six, winning half
The Venerable Order of Giants have scored 67 runs in their first eleven games, six at Pac Belle and two at Chavez Ravine, all without Barry, four without Moises (who was oh-fer the games he did play). That is all….
Book Report: Bleak House
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Longtime Gentle Readers of this Tohu Bohu will be aware that Bleak House is one of my favorite books. Well, and my Best Reader finally acceded to its choice as a bedtime book. This is, over the last ten or…
Book Report: Villa Incognito
At some point recently, Your Humble Blogger was scanning the shelves looking for a book to re-read. I was in the mood for something funny, a bit wild, a bit serious, something that I had read before but not too…
See, Pope, run
A few months ago, Your Humble Blogger wrote the following: The essential dividing line in American culture at the moment is the answer to this question: do you believe that all those outside of your church tradition are damned? The…
Lex Hartmania
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On the first of February last, Your Humble Blogger sent an email to Mark Liberman, of Language Log, in which I referred to Hartman’s Law of Prescriptivist Retaliation. Prof. Liberman made mention of it in a post two months later,…
Parshah Metzorah
Last week, in Parshah Tazria, most of the laws about skin disease, quarantine, and ritual purity were laid down. This week is Parshah Metzorah (Leviticus 14:1-15:33), which finishes up about the disease stuff, including the ritual return to the community…
Parshah Tazria (after the fact, again)
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Did I never post about parshah Tazria, (Lev 12:1-13:59)? Oh, dear. I did, in fact, prepare something for services, although what I was planning to talk about was not what we did, in fact, talk about. The reading is about…
Spring, sprang, sprung
Your Humble Blogger has lived in four very different places in the US, with four very different climates. Somehow, I forget that. I grew up in the desert. Spring, in the Valley of the Sun, generally lasted six to eight…
Stick it
Well, and nobody has asked Your Humble Blogger to join the latest book meme, but since I’ve been thinking about my answers, I’ll go ahead and blog ’em. By the way, I’ve never spent time running one of these memes…
Sweep!
The Venerable Order of Giants have scored 33 runs in their first six games, all at Pac Belle, all without Barry, four without Moises (who was oh-fer the games he did play). That is all. chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek,-Vardibidian….