Happy May Day, Gentle Readers all! Not a very good April for this Tohu Bohu, I’m afraid. 27 entries, including a weeklong gap for a family emergency, with 48 comments (including four in April for notes previously entered). That’s down…
It seems Your Humble Blogger will need a new tag line. Just when Your Humble Blogger was starting to feel the slightest bit chipper, there comes a new round of awful news. For those not paying attention, well, good luck…
Your Humble Blogger was going to direct Gentle Readers to this interesting but wordy article by Jay Rosen, who makes an interesting note about the changing place of the Press in the minds of the public and in the minds…
In looking for inspiration, Your Humble Blogger went back to Our Only President’s speech of the 17th March, 2003. This was the 48 hour ultimatum, the final speech before the invasion of Iraq. I didn’t find any inspiration for an…
Via Alas, a Blog, a fascinating article by Lawrence Lessig on the Copyright Term Extension Act, and his role in a challenge to it. If you’re not familiar with Prof. Lessig, he argued against the act before the Supreme Court,…
via Jere7my, via Geoffrey Nunberg, YHB came across this essay by Whitney Pastorek in the Village Voice. No point, just entertained. “Something is going horribly wrong, and I have finally traced the problem to its source: blogs.” Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
In 1988, Your Humble Blogger supported then-Senator Paul Simon’s candidacy. At the time, I only wore a bow tie on occasion; I liked his policies more than his style. Also, Rep. Gephardt had no eyebrows. Bruce Babbitt stood up for…
Having already read Steven Brust’s The Phoenix Guards (New York: Tor 1991) once without falling for it Your Humble Blogger isn’t quite sure how it came to be in his hands upon leaving the library. I suppose, knowing that many…
Your Humble Blogger had read The Gods Themselves (New York: Doubleday 1972) in my adolescent Asimov-reading days, but never got around to it during my more or less middle-aged Asimov re-reading days. It’s, um, well, it’s an Asimov book, but…
Your Humble Blogger doesn’t claim to have read the entirety of The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases (San Francisco: Night Shade Books 2003), but it isn’t that sort of book. It is, however, very funny…