Your Humble Blogger is probably not going to write about politics much in the next few weeks. I am, slowly, getting over the depression part, but I haven’t much taste for dissecting what went wrong, nor for predicting what the…
This may be my fourth or fifth time through The Postman, and I still think it’s an excellent book. Sure, there are flaws, but it manages to be engrossing while it brings up issues I find fascinating. It does bring…
The fifth Parshah is Chaye Sarah (23:1-25:18), which is confusing, of course, since Chaye Sarah means the Life of Sarah, and the reading opens with her death. Anyway, the parshah starts with Sarah’s death and the negotiation surrounding her burial,…
I picked up Neal Asher’s The Skinner (NY: Tor 2004) without having heard anything about it whatsoever, which is just as well. A quick google shows that it was well-reviewed, and if I had high expectations, I would have been…
It seems that I never wrote about Parshah Vayeera (18:1 � 22:24). I apologize; it really is a Tohu Bohu up here. Anyway, we talked about the expulsion of Ishmael, chapter 21. What I wanted to talk about was how…
Well, I admit that I’m depressed. I’m disappointed, of course, that Our Only President will remain in office, and that his cronies will continue running a secretive, dishonest and incompetent administration. What’s more disappointing, though, is that I thought the…
Well, ABC just called Florida red, which still means that it’s up to Ohio, but more importantly means that if Senator Kerry wins Ohio on the count, a successful court challenge gives the White House back to Our Only President…
OK, an hour later, and what do we know? Nothing more than before. There’s still no news from any of the battleground states. Red states still red. Blue still blue. Purple still purple. And on we go. I do keep…
OK, it’s 9:25 here, and there’s essentially no news, and there won’t be any news for hours. News about the election, that is. OK, that’s not technically true. We’ve had some bad news about the Senate and the House, and…
Follow the bouncing links, right? After I had deliberately passed on reading this NYT article, I was sent back by this Michael Bérubé note to look at this inspirational photo, which I’m certainly nominating for the Jesus of the Week….