Sorry, pardon the virtual mess. Pull up a virtual pew and let’s get started. If you’ve just got here, we’re talking about Better Together, I’m in that room talking about the Introduction, and I’m over there talking about Valley Interfaith,…
OK, Your Humble Blogger will clog up the blog by complaining about the same thing all the other bloggers are complaining about. Feel free to skip this one. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth paid for a television ad where…
Your Humble Blogger happened on Unfutz’s Electoral College Survey via Alas, a Blog and initially, it looked pretty darned cheering. After all, he shows 39 sites, of which 28 show Sen. Kerry with enough electoral votes to win, 5 show…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has a question for … you! Does the joke line “I’m with the band” have current resonance, or is it a 70’s thing? Or is it a retro-seventies thing? I’ve heard it pop up in…
Another recent pick-up off the New Book shelf was Blacklist, a V.I. Warshawski novel by Sara Paretsky. Now, I thought the first five or six V.I. novels (Indemnity Only, Deadlock , Killing Orders, Bitter Medicine, Blood Shot and maybe Burn…
Every now and then I find myself on the edge of knowing what’s going on. For instance, Gentle Readers will by now have figured out that Your Humble Blogger likes speculative fiction. This is, for the most part, a holdover…
The New York Times reveals that, according to AFT analysis of NAEP data, charter schools are not actually doing a better job at teaching reading and math than non-charter schools. Now, I’m agin charter schools, but I always expected them…
Hi, everybody, come on in. Set yourselves down. I know many Gentle Readers are still in the next room, talking about the Introduction; if you missed last week, just virtually go in there, too. Plenty of virtuality for everyone. It’s…
I’m just watching the Sesame Street All-Star Musical Special Put Down the Duckie with my Perfect Non-Reader, and other than the extraordinarily odd moments of Mr. Hudson and Rose playing with a rubber duck, the really disorienting thing was Ralph…
I think I talked about this on somebody else’s blog last time I read it, before I started my book report, but Lois McMaster Bujold’s The Curse of Chalion really is quite a book. It’s a romance, of course, and…