Well, and it’s Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the Day of Judgement, the Day of Mercy. Your Humble Blogger hasn’t had a very successful High Holiday period, as far as introspection goes, but a couple of lines caught my…

Ed Gray, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald, has come out of the closet. Good for him. For those of you not familiar with Boston and its newspapers, the Boston Herald is the tabloid-sized paper, and the Globe is…

I mean, morally? I have held for some years that misanthropy is essentially a sin. Humans are made in the image of the Lord, and to hold them in contempt is to hold the Lord in contempt. Still further, to…

Sometimes, Your Humble Blogger doesn’t come across an article until it’s too late to link to it. Usually, I’ll just mention it to people within earshot. But I liked this piece by Geoffrey Nunberg enough to seek out his web…

One of my favorite bloggers, Nathan Newman recently wrote a piece about the rhetoric of the Left in the wake of Our Only President’s disastrous decision to invade Iraq. As some of my Gentle Readers will recall, I was ambivalent…

Arrrrrr, me beauties, and ye won’t have forgotten it’s International Talk like a Pirate Day, hey? Or will it be the Cat? In other news, International Talk like an Inside Trader day has been indefinitely postponed. Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….

Gentle Readers, There’s an interesting couple of posts at Refference, a blog by a fellow named Jeremy Reff, arguing for a more aesthetic approach to political conversation. I’m agin it, myself, but I haven’t any really coherent idea why. I…

The Yale strike is ovah! I’ve no real idea who won, but my goodness, isn’t that a mess. The whole Yale labor thing is a textbook example of how a bad management can encourage a hostile union to be more…