I tend to read the oddest things on vacation. Well, that’s not true, as I tend to read at least one lightweight specfic or mystery novel, and that’s about what anybody would call vacation reading. But I will also pick…
I had read and more or less enjoyed a few of Harry Turtledove’s sandals and sorcery novels a few years ago, as well as a few of his short stories, and had read a couple of his alternate-history novels as…
There’s an odd little article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal called Dean Campaign Made Payments To Two Bloggers, by William M. Bulkeley and James Bandler, with Jeanne Cummings contributing. It turns out that when Governor Dean’s campaign hired Jerome…
It occurs to me that I’d enjoy doing a State of the Blog for December, although with only 32 entries I have to give myself a pretty substantial break for being out of town. Still, my Gentle Readers contributed a…
This week we read Parshah Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16), which comprises the last three plagues, the institution of the religious calendar and the annual observation of Passover, the hasty departure of Israel from their homes without leavening their bread, and the…
It turns out that Your Humble Blogger never wrote about Parshah Va’ayra (Exodus 6:2-9:35), in part because I didn’t prepare much for synagogue whilst on the road, and had a lousy discussion that I’d just as soon leave unexamined. I…
An off-hand comment by a reader of the Rhetorica led me to PIPA’s survey of Misperceptions, The Media and The Iraq War, which I had glanced at a year ago. The comment, though, led me to one of the things…
One of my Gentle Readers reminds me that I missed our Liberal Lion roaring at the National Press Club this afternoon. There’s a prepared transcript at Common Dreams and a video at C-Span, which I hope will include the q&a…
I believe I had mentioned, some time ago, that I was half-way through The Tale of Despereaux, Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup, and a Spool of Thread, by Kate DiCamillo. Well, and a while later…
Your Humble Blogger was considering writing about Nathan Newman’s latest on Freethinkers, but that didn’t so much happen. Instead, I washed the car. Now, those Gentle Readers who know me are aware that saying I am not a car person…