Having spent Mother’s Day doing that whole Mother’s Day thing (well, except without the Hallmark card, the flowers, the candy, and the gift, and with Visigothic fibulae, crozier heads and incunabula), I missed the nice new tradition being started by…
In shul this morning, Your Humble blogger was singing ‘Oseh shalom bimromav’, as I do every week, and thinking, as I have every week for more than a year, about the meaning of the words. Singing more fervently than I…
Your Humble Blogger has been picking through the surprisingly good collection of graphic novels and comics at the local library. After somebody reminded me that I hadn’t read any Hellblazer, I got Hellblazer: Good Intentions, and, well, enh. Was I…
It took a month to get through it, but Your Humble Blogger is glad The Thurber Letters: The Wit, Wisdom, and Surprising Life of James Thurber (New York: Simon & Schuster 2003) didn’t wind up getting returned to the library…
Your Humble Blogger had completely forgotten Colin Powell’s role in My Lai. Well, that’s poorly phrased; Colin Powell had no role in the slaughter itself, but, if my recollection, Lexis-Nexis and Google have given me the correct picture, he was…
It occurs to YHB that this list was undoubtedly more interesting to put together than to read. Ah, well… 1 Die Chassidim Forren tsum Rebbin [Yiddish, unintelligible] Chasids visit the Rebbe * Got to Hurry Yardbirds [instrumental] Great tune…
Jere7my passes along a LJ ‘meme’, which, for no very good reason, I’ve decided to do. Having done it, I’m posting it here, also for no very good reason. The suggestion is this: Shuffle your current playlist and write down…
James Rosenthal has a very odd column in this morning’s Times (which requires registration). He is reacting to Lynne Truss’ Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by suggesting, it seems, a maximum-tolerance approach to punctuation. “The…
At some point in April, needing a comfort book, Your Humble Blogger re-read Brothers in Arms (New York: Baen 1989), by Lois McMaster Bujold. The first several chapters appear to be available on-line. It isn’t one of my very favorite…
Last year, when Your Humble Blogger found that he had missed Loyalty Day, it was the occasion for a note about the recent Loyalty Day proclamations, and what they revealed about Our Only President and his immediate predecessor. This year’s…