Grievance Society: an incoherent ramble
I had a kind of odd confluence of reading matter today, which has led to some odd musings, of which I will try to make a kind of sense here. It’s really a Tohu Bohu (more even than usual), and…
fucking crazies
If you were wondering why the most popular Republican in the country didn’t appear at their national convention, perhaps this has something to do with it. If y’all don’t want to click the link, Gentle Readers, it seems that Colin…
A Fan’s Life (for half-an-hour)
Your Humble Blogger is a baseball fan. I know some of my Gentle Readers are fans, and some are not. For those who are not, here’s a taste of what it’s like. I’ll probably bore those of you who are…
The Fear that Dare Not Speak Its Name
Gentle Readers, y’all have all heard by now that Dick Cheney said “[I]f we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we’ll get hit again.” He’s making a threat, right? This is inexcusable behavior for a vice president,…
Christendom
Neighbors of YHB have a car with a pro-life bumper-sticker. I don’t know them, but I see the car every day. It’s disconcerting, as I have some standard liberal prejudices concerning people with pro-life bumper-stickers: intolerant, small-minded, obsessive, judgmental. I’ve…
Kate and Cary, and so on
In the last month or so, Your Humble Blogger has enjoyed watching two of the three great Hepburn-Grant movies. There’s a fourth, 1935’s Sylvia Scarlett, but I’ve never seen it and it’s supposed to be terrible. In a period of…
Tohu Bohu Book Club: Better Together, The Shipyard Project
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Hi, everybody, sorry I’m late. As usual, the Tohu Bohu book club is meeting to talk about Better Together. In there is the Introduction, in there is Valley Interfaith, the chapter on Branch Libraries is in there, and this room…
Si Se Puede!
It’s Labor Day, and I hope y’all are enjoying it, Gentle Readers. It is, per Samuel Gompers, the day “for which the toilers in past centuries looked forward, when their rights and their wrongs would be discussed…that the workers of…
More about schools, and testing, and so on
Your Humble Blogger has no particular insight, but this article in this morning’s NYTimes points out the difficulties of testing and reporting the success of schools. The federal list of underperforming schools evidently includes lots of schools that the locals…
spammed
So, Gentle Reader, if you had been perusing this Tohu Bohu between, say, five and ten this morning (EDT), you might have seen some blogspam. Perhaps. Probably not. Three comments were left, each one consisting of a word hyperlinked to…