Book Report: Dune
So, Your Humble Blogger read Dune again, for the first time in a few years. I’m surprised to say that I enjoyed it a lot. The last time I read it, I found myself unable to shake the prose of…
Parshah Vayikra
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This week’s parshah was Vayikra (Leviticus 1:1-5:26), in which the Lord gives Moses the detailed instructions for karbanot, sacrificial offerings. Different kinds of offerings (lambs, goats, birds, meal) are set out for different reasons and different levels of affluence. There’s…
bacon, lettuce and terrorism
Gentle Readers will be aware that Your Humble Blogger is generally pretty serene about the political big picture, and although I feel that Our Only President is doing a lot of harm in this country and the world, I try…
Spamelot
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This morning’s New York Times has, at last, the review of Spamelot, which is to Monty Python what Mamma Mia! is to Abba. And the review (A Quest Beyond the Grail, by Ben Brantley) says that, well, Spamelot is to…
Cruel, Unusual, Punishment
I wasn’t going to write about capital punishment for a while, but the latest going around the blogosphere is A-List blogger Eugene Volokh’s comment Something the Iranian government and I agree on. The something in question is public torture and…
gonna, Daddy, gonna
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Michael, that Gentlest of Readers, has been wandering though the back pages of this Tohu Bohu, and has left a few comments, here and there, which is awfully nice, like leaving little gifts around the house. It also, by the…
yet more “death” “business”
Irilyth writes, in a comment on the whole death business, that he finds appealing the rights-based approach, That your right to life derives from your respect for other people’s right to life, and if you violate someone else’s right, you…
Who gets it?
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I’m sure that everybody’s favorite residents of Left Blogovia will be all over Mr. Kristof’s column Who Gets It? Hillary in this morning’s New York Times (regreq, of course; I think it was Jeanne over at Body and Soul who…
Peering into the Dumpster
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Your Humble Blogger has just come back from reading How to Write like a Liberal Sack of Garbage over at Wealth Bondage, having followed the link from Timothy Burke over at Easily Distracted. The good bit is the comments, which…
Book Report: The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
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Your Humble Blogger may be perfectly capable of perusing the new book shelf at the library without picking up a book with a title like The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, but why would such a capacity ever be…