Your Humble Blogger came across the following lines in a work of speculative fiction written for juveniles: [T]he room was of dazzling brilliance and beauty, for it was lined throughout with an exquisite metal that resembled translucent frosted silver. ……
Your Humble Blogger is back from vacation, so to ease back into this Tohu Bohu, let’s return to everyone’s favorite, the Conservative Tenets. For any of my Gentle Readers who have joined me in the past six weeks or so,…
By the way, Your Humble Blogger will be away for the next week, incommunicado, netless, and imbloggable. I hope to return on or about the 17th of August. Meanwhile, discuss amongst yourselves. Redintegro Iraq,-Vardibidian….
David, or should I say david, has provoked me on the word citizenship. Or I provoked him. Or Chris did. Anyway, I want to separate it out for a new topic, but all I have are questions: What does it…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger is not doing a good job at balancing hatchet jobs with puff pieces, but here’s one of the latter. Bishop Barbara Harris is one of the most heroic people currently involved in public life. She…
Your Humble Blogger hasn’t blogged up the DARPA futures market business yet, which is just as well, because it turns out that Steve Kelman wrote a column in the Washington Post last Thursday saying pretty much exactly what I think….
On Baseball Primer’s Clutch Hits, every month or two somebody posts something like “Miguel Tejada is better then Nomar Garciaparra; you have to see him every day to know how good he is.” Thirty or forty posters then respond that…
This morning’s New York Times has an article about the WPA Federal Writers’ Project. It seems the Library of Congress is now presenting their collection of manuscripts from the Folklore Project. The article focuses on the American Guide series, where…
So. Your Humble Blogger is in a Union Meeting yesterday (and by the way, I can’t decide if it’s great or awful that I belong to a union whose leadership reads children’s books at meetings for inspiration) and Our Leader…
Your Humble Blogger has recently had yet another frustrating conversation about affirmative action. So I’ll post what I have to say here, and you can tell me why it isn’t persuasive… My father went to Queens College and Columbia Law…