Michael Lind, former Neocon, has a fascinating article in the upcoming Feb. 23rd issue of The Nation on the Neoconservative movement and its leaders. It’s quite long, and I don’t really know how to deal with his personal biases, but…
Our Only President allowed himself to Meet the Press yesterday, in the person of Tim Russert. Your Humble Blogger took a pass. It’s the biggest news of the day, though. It’s as if the only opportunity to examine the President’s…
I first heard Personville called Poisonville by a red-haired mucker named Hickey Dewey in the Big Ship in Butte. He also called his shirt a shoit. Your Humble Blogger mentioned Red Harvest (New York: Vintage 1989) recently. This may well…
Your Humble Blogger has finally finished Tom Holt’s Faust Among Equals from The First Tom Holt Omnibus (London: Orbit 2000). While I started it in early 2003, shortly after finishing Flying Dutch, I read the bulk of it in 2004….
NOTE: This is a copy of a ‘diary’ I just posted at the Daily Kos. Short version: does someone at the Daily Kos want to work up a system for us to enter slate cards for our home precincts, and…
Just because the title caught Your Humble Blogger’s eye, Peter David’s Sir Apropos of Nothing (New York: Pocket 2001) is the latest Book Report. My conclusion, after five-hundred-odd pages, is that I really dislike antiheroes. Antiheroes are, by definition, protagonists…
I don’t have much to say about it, but there’s an article by Mark Katz, who gave Bill Clinton jokes, over at the Washington Monthly. It’s got a very funny description of what went through his mind when he first…
Gentle Readers, I suspect if you like reading this Tohu Bohu, you are likely to enjoy reading Rhetorica, a blog by Andrew Cline. This morning’s note is about the peculiarity of the importance, in presidential campaigns, of hundreds of thousands…
Your Humble Blogger went from Carnap’s Livejournal to a convincing visual display of a predictable idea: liberals buy liberal books, and conservatives buy conservative books. If you are interested in the methodology, I suggest you look at last year’s version,…
Your Humble Blogger was listening to NPR’s All Thing Considered today and found one of the stories fascinating: Turkish Eid Holiday Gets Modern Feel This week, Turkey celebrates Kurban Bayram. The Muslim holiday normally features people buying rams and other…