Election Day, November, 1884, by Walt Whitman, from Leaves of Grass, Book XXXIV: Sands at Seventy. If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, ‘Twould not be you, Niagara–nor you, ye limitless prairies–nor your…
Do you know how, sometimes, even the day before the election, you can be all, like, reasonable and stuff, and then there are those other times? Folk-punk genius Jim Infantino (and his Big Ego) has a beautiful little ditty for…
A while ago, Your Humble Blogger saw the two great Hepburn/Grant/Cukor/Stewart/Barry movies, Holiday and The Philadelphia Story. As I am interested in good writing for film and for theater, I thought I’d check out the original plays, and see how…
I was just this morning thinking about writing a how-many-people-will-vote note. On DKos this morning, UMBC’s Tom Schaller predicts 124,000,000 votes cast. That’s to think about going in to the booth on Tuesday; you are voting by yourself, but the…
Articles such as this one in the Times remind me that there were an awful lot of people who warned, before the invasion, that this could well degenerate into a house-to-house shooting war. As it happens, I am not one…
… and the best part is when the Yankees come to Fenway, and the guys in the bleachers start chanting “2004! 2004!” Actually, I didn’t even watch the games. I followed part of each one on Gameday, and read about…
About a year and a quarter ago, Your Humble Blogger wrote this note about John Kerry. At the time, I was looking at the Democratic candidates and trying to ascertain not what kind of candidates they would be, but what…
Your Humble Blogger’s copy of Murder Must Advertise is pretty beat-up. I’ve read it a lot, I guess. It’s fun. I think I like Lord Peter more in this book than in any other, and of course he gets to…
Well, and we talked about Parshah Lech L’cha, Genesis 12:1 � 17:27, and it went OK. It was a rambling discussion, even more so than usual, since Rabbi was away (she’s in Boston tonight, and good luck to her, particularly…
It’s probably not the ideal time to write about it, but this Op-Ed by Phil Keisling and Sam Reed in this morning’s yesterday’s Times and this segment on Morning Edition piqued me into talking about political parties. You see, I’m…