Over at Kos, Chik Patty asks What Should Kerry’s Campaign Song be? Your Humble Blogger thinks it’s a fun, fun question. There are two ways to play, boys and girls; seriously or less so. Da Boss? Ray Charles (may he…
Your Humble Blogger’s left-labor blog hero Nathan Newman points to a NYT article that discusses the effect of switching from old-fashioned defined-benefit pensions to new-fangled defined-contribution retirement accounts. In the article, Mary Williams Walsh says that “virtually all” the studies…
Your Humble Blogger doesn’t have a copy of Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero-Tolerance Approach to Punctuation to hand, so this note will be fairly general. Not, however, as general as Go Ye Forth and Read, which was my initial…
Jed posts (via Plantgirl (at least that seems to be the Plantgirl in question)) What 10 works of fiction would you want after the apocalypse when these are going to be the only (fiction) books available to your surviving population…
Well, and this week’s parsha is Beha’alotecha; for those Gentle Readers who missed services this morning for one reason or another, here’s a quick highlight. I’ll pick up at Numbers eleven, four, page 614 in your Hertz Chumash. See, the…
So, what with discussing hard sf in this TohuBohu a few times, when Your Humble Blogger saw Hal Clement’s Half-Life (NY: Tor 1999) on the library shelf, it went into the bag without a second thought. And boy, is this…
OK, this is just my way of thinking, but shouldn’t the gang of libs be cracking ‘Kerry’s wife is a Republican’ jokes? I mean, let’s face it, there’s going to be a goofy and imprecise caricature of her in people’s…
Your Humble Blogger happened across this list and thought some of my Gentle Readers would enjoy it. It seems the great Ed Fuller asked members of the Swarthmore faculty to pick one book to recommend to incoming freshfolk, and this…
OK, here’s a goofy complaint. Your Humble Blogger was recently driving a pretty long stretch of two-lane highway. The speed limit was 65 miles per hour, cars were going, for the most part, between 75 and 80. Now, I’m not…
So. Your Humble Blogger finally got around to watching ‘The Gore Speech’, Al Gore’s May 26 NYU/MoveOn PAC speech. For those who want to watch the whole thing, C-SPAN has it in their video library under Defense/Security, and it’s currently…