OK, Your Humble Blogger is taking another five-day (or so) break, which means that it’s time to give up on writing actual essays on any of these: Trapper John over at The Next Hurrah posts that The NLRB is taking…
Your Humble Blogger is reliably informed that today is that most Welsh of all days, St. David’s Day. To celebrate, drink a glass of water, put a leek in your cap, or preach with such eloquence that the ground underneath…
OK, so one of the things about being a nerd, is that when Your Humble Blogger looked at the results of the Oscars, the immediate thought was “how often does that happen?”, followed by research to see whether the perceived…
So, Your Humble Blogger was having this little conversation about pilgrimage, and we got to wondering about modern versions. In particular, I’m looking for things that we (mainstreamish Americans) do that involves (a) traveling to a particular place, (2) getting…
During a recent period of exhaustion and muzzy-headedness (which isn’t so much over as it might be, although I’ve pretty much decided not to indulge it any more), I fell happily into the arms of a couple of comfort books….
Your Humble Blogger didn’t realize quite how far behind things had gotten in this whole parshah business. Going back, then, two weeks to parshah Terumah, I had wondered how the Israelites managed to make the Mishkan to spec. I brought…
This is an odd but interesting story that may interest my Gentle Readers. I came across it through Clive Thompson’s Collision Detection, which pointed to a BBC article, but I found this nature.com article clearer. And, of course, for thems…
Ok, and just because I’m still muzzy-headed, here’s the latest meme: Ten Things Your Humble Blogger Has Done that I Doubt Gentle Readers Have Also Done, although of course One is Never Sure. Rode through the desert on a horse…
Your Humble Blogger had this great idea for an Oscars game. Around Thanksgiving, when nobody knew anything, people would start bidding in what was more or less an auction for movies and performances. When the nominations came out, two months…
One of the blogs I occasionally look in on is Clive Thompson’s Collision Detection, which didn’t actually have anything too interesting recently, but pointed me to English Cut, the website of Thomas Mahon, a Savile Row tailor. I am a…