Loopy
Over at the Language Log, Geoffrey K. Pullum was quite reasonably ticked at the sign indicating that bike racks are “only on westbound Loop shuttles”; the loop is in fact a loop, and westbound buses go east as well before…
Book Report: Califia’s Daughters
Leigh Richards is, according to the About the Author bit on the back cover of Califia’s Daughters, better known as New York Times bestselling mystery writer Laurie R. King. Now, what’s the point of the pseudonym again? Anyway, I enjoyed…
Parsha B’reisheet: Recap
Well, that went pretty well. I was still making up my mind as I got to the shul, but I settled on Adam and Eve. As I was afraid, the conversation mostly went to the usual general topics (was the…
Book Report: In the Shadow of No Towers
I’ll say this: when I first found out that Art Spiegelman was doing a weekly broadsheet page for Die Zeit, I tried like heck to find it on-line. It wasn’t there, which was a perfectly reasonable choice for Mr. Spiegelman…
Jim
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One of the things about these joint public appearances is that there’s a fellow who keeps asking questions. Sometimes, the candidates answer the questions, or at least respond to them. I’ve pasted below just the questions asked by Jim Lehrer…
Only the Veeps
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One way to think about the performances during these joint press appearances is to imagine whether the individuals are happy or regretful later that night. For instance, it’s pretty hard to imagine John Kerry anything other than jubilant after last…
Dept. of Homeland Security, Jungle of Nool division
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I’ve always wondered why the Kangaroo made such a big deal of Horton hearing the Who. I mean, yes, the elephant’s clearly crazy, but so what? Why bother going to so much trouble, with the black-bottomed eagle, and the beazle-nut…
Linkity link link, linkity lo!
A couple of quick links related to international relations, and so on… I don’t actually endorse much of what the anonymous writer of this Salon article is saying about the State Department, but I like this quote: “Powell is leaving….
Parshah B’reisheet
This week’s parshah is called B’reisheet (or Bereshith, or Bereshit, or what you will) because that’s the first word of the text, and it means ‘in the beginning’, and, you know, it’s the beginning. It’s also the name of the…
New Tohu Bohu series: Parshot
OK, here’s a new series of posts for this Tohu Bohu: The weekly parshah. For those who don’t know already, in the Jewish liturgy is a weekly portion of Torah reading. The Books of Moses, or the Humaish (five), are…