Your Humble Blogger has been itching to write about the Culture War for a while, now, and Matthew Yglesias’ note over on TAPPED has given me the impetus to at least ramble a bit. Oh, and the minifuror over the…
Oh, well done, Big Unit. I’m happy for you, and for baseball. By the way, it turns out than YHB can enjoy baseball even when the Giants stink….
Your Humble Blogger would like to blame every damn’ thing on Our Current President and his Busheviki, but like everything else, it’s more complicated than that. So when I hear that a company has been treating tents, tarpaulins and other…
Your Humble Blogger uses the term ‘hero’ for a bunch of people who are really really good at what they do, who in some way do what I would do if I wanted to be in their field and had…
So, I was, grudgingly, pleased when Our Only President admitted that the events at Abu Ghraid disgraced him. However, Geoffrey Pullum points out that given (a) President Bush’s difficulty with extemporaneous speaking, (2) his stated position that he feels he…
Your Humble Blogger should remember to do puff pieces with much greater frequency; I’m not really as cranky as I seem on-line. And, as it happens, my Perfect Non-Reader is learning to read Between the Lions. Now, just the title…
Your Humble Blogger has several ‘favorite books’, as I hope most people do. I imagine that most people will go back and forth between those favorites depending on their mood, what else they’ve read recently, and how recently they’ve reread…
It’s a trifle awkward for Your Humble Blogger to talk about New Voices in Science Fiction (New York: DAW 2003), as my gracious host and some of my Gentle Readers may well have friends and associates among those new voices,…
Under no circumstances should any Gentle Reader buy From Narnia to a Space Odyssey: The War of Letters Between Arthur C. Clarke and C.S. Lewis, and even borrowing it from a library isn’t recommended. Your Humble Blogger will rarely make…
When Your Humble Blogger can’t think of much to say, it’s time to go around the horn: John Scalzi comes up with the right phrases pretty often. “Personally, what I wish were that it were November so I could cast…