More or less at the same time Your Humble Blogger was writing about religious exceptionalists and pluralists, the indispensable Nathan Newman was writing about secularism and religion, and bringing his usual historical light to it. One quote I’ll pull out:…
Well, and I’m sure by now all you Gentle Readers know that our very own Tom DeLay, the only House Majority Leader we have, showed remarkable taste in choosing Matthew 7:21-27 for last week’s Congressional Prayer Service. Now, most of…
Just a thought—um, I’m glad about GLAAD, and all, and I like the Media Awards, but does it strike anyone that when the top underwriter of your awards ceremony is Absolut, that it’s a little … I don’t know, when…
Your Humble Blogger was not altogether surprised to discover that the total book count for 2004 was over a hundred; that’s only two a week, after all. I was surprised, however, that of that hundred (actually 119) only 44 were…
Your Humble Blogger is home again, home again, and will start blogging soon. Without blogging the actual vacation, let me just point out how terribly poignant it is to be newspaperless for a week, and then on Dec. 29th pick…
If you can’t judge a book by its cover (and you can), it was a pretty good bet when my Best Reader bought me a copy of The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse. And if it isn’t as good…
As it happens, I never met Donna Jo Napoli during my time at Swat, so I have no personal connection there. I do have friends who like her personally, and (so I understand) like her writing, so I approached Beast…
Your Humble Blogger has somehow never read Lost Horizon, so when I happened to discover it nestled among short stories in a collection called More Stories to Remember, edited by Thomas Costain and John Beecroft, I thought it was pretty…
Your Humble Blogger is back on-line for a day, to catch up on book reports and take care of other such business as exists. While I’m here, I can report on a curious effect of special relativity: on long car…
OK, Your Humble Blogger is on the road today, but here’s a quick Parshah note for Shemot (Gen 1:1 – 6:1). Shemot takes us from the birth of Moses all the way up to his return to Egypt with the…