If Your Humble Blogger hadn’t been alerted to a question about whether Beryl Markham actually wrote it, the experience of West with the Night, (San Francisco: North Point Press 1983) might have been different. As it was, I found much…
It seems odd now, but a year ago, more or less, people were saying that the anti-war faction had been proved wrong by events. I wrote a note at the time, detailing what I saw as the four major camps…
Your Humble Blogger read Late Night Thoughts of a Defeatist at the recommendation of Atrios, and now recommends it to Gentle Readers all. The highlight, for me, was the point that if the invasion of Iraq is a battle in…
Your Humble Blogger found Easily Distracted fairly recently, and it’s an interesting blog of lengthy, rambling, high-falutin’ Big Thinks. I’m not, on the whole, in agreement with a lot of his conclusions, and furthermore I’m not particularly interested in a…
Congatulations, Denver! For those Gentle Readers who will make sense of how exciting this must have been (we welcome comments from Senator Kerry, who was, you know, there), the Black Bears of Maine were down by one with a minute…
Via John Scalzi’s Whatever, Your Humble Blogger has been listening to “Little Know Ye Who’s Coming”, which is … well, go and listen. Slavery’s comin’, knavery’s comin’, Wonder’s comin’, plunder’s comin’, Jobbin’s comin’, robbin’s comin’ If John Kerry not be…
After a reminder from my Best Reader and also from The American Prospect, Your Humble Blogger just spent an hour listening to Sen. Kennedy’s recent Critique of Administration Policy at the Brookings Institution. Well, watching and listening; C-SPAN has the…
Clearly, my post about a possible Code of Ethics was unclear. Let me try again. I’ll probably sound very defensive, so forgive me; I do understand that my argument may well be wrong. It’s certainly far too long. Before I…
Your Humble Blogger just happened to come across this note, and although I understand almost none of it (and, frankly, am content with that), I did come away with a new respect for the Google enterprise. I’ll see if I…
Your Humble Blogger is getting out the old seder plate. Passover is my favorite holiday; when I talk about those aspects of Judaism that I really enjoy and find fulfillment in, I tend to go back to the haggadah. It’s…