flip-flopped off
Before the debate, I should probably get off my chest my main crankiness about this campaign season, which is the extent to which Our Only President and his cronies have gotten away with pretending that John Kerry has changed his…
Book Report: Leave it to Psmith
Back when Your Humble Blogger had access to such things as shoddy microfilm of the Saturday Evening Post from the twenties, I managed to read the Original Ending to Leave it to Psmith. The difference is a thousand words, more…
Genius!
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Your Humble Blogger has a deep ambivalence towards the whole MacArthur “genius” fellowships, but once again, I’m impressed by this year’s crop. And the important thing is that only a few of them are younger than me. Than I. Than…
411blog
I think this is a good idea: a clearinghouse for bloggers who actually know something. A spot where journalists can find mavens on various things. It’s called 411blog (no, it’s a dreadful name) and it has just begun. You can’t…
Book Report: Straight
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Straight was one of the first Dick Francis novels I read. It was also one of my least favorite. I donated my copy to a library in 1994, after having read it twice, and didn’t really think much about reading…
Theories and facts, and the French
YHB knows he keeps pointing Gentle Readers towards the same few sites, but this note in the Language Log is quite long and appears on first glance to be devoted to making fun of the French, so even the occasional…
Fall fell fill foll full
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Didja all have a nice equinox, Gentle Readers? I think the idea of claiming that Fall commences with the equinox is pretty silly (and winter begins on Midwinter Day, right?) but hereabouts it does seem to be just tipping over…
Sorry, nothing happening here
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By the way, YHB hasn’t been blogging about the presidential race much, lately, but this is in part because most of what I am inclined to say about the race is handicapping, which gets too much attention as it is….
Kiss-Off mix
OK, so YHB has been noodling around with an idea of making a mix CD of Kiss-Off songs. It was almost a year ago when I first talked about the kiss-off song. I’m still deciding what songs to put on…
Limes prevent scurvy, studies show
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Avast! Be ye talkin’ like a pirate yet, ye lubbers? Or will it be the Cat? ,-Vardibidian….