Your Humble Blogger picked up Quite Ugly One Morning (NY: Grove 1996), by Christopher Brookmyre, at the library, because the cover of Mr. Brookmyre’s most recent was pretty spiffy. Oh, and it won some award or other. Anyway, it was…
Y’all keeping up with the same-sex wedding news? It’s not for the sleepy… Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Nathan Newman has a terrific post on gay marriage and polygamy. He uses his usual intelligence, acumen, and particularly his breadth of knowledge and historical context to take a look at the ‘slippery slope’ argument: The slippery slope is very…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger has been humbly blogging for a year now, more or less. I’m not sure when the anniversary should be, technically. Before Jed set me up with this lovely database, I jotted down notes for a…
So, the mayor, who is in some sense a law enforcement officer, decides to interpret a law in a, shall we say, unprecedented manner, and instructs his executive branch to carry out their duties in accordance with his new interpretation….
It’s obvious, and perhaps overly cute, but Your Humble Blogger liked Farley today.Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
For the umpteenth time, Your Humble Blogger has read Cordelia’s Honor (Riverdale: Baen 1996) by Lois McMaster Bujold. This is an omnibus edition of Shards of Honor and Barrayar, which were written some five years (and three or four books)…
Your Humble Blogger is back, and uninspired to write at the moment. Instead, I direct your attention to Jed’s Lorum Ipsum entry about same-sex weddings and, through that, to Zak Szymanski’s pictures of same. Still waiting for pictures of those…
Your Humble Blogger will be offline for a few days. Nothing to worry about; it’s not my ISP, it’s travel. Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
Well, Your Humble Blogger has voted. In the end, I filled in the little oval next to … Senator John Edwards. I’m not sure I can ultimately explain why. I was still deciding between Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry while…