Carol Moseley Braun (Project Vote Smart) Background: She has quite an impressive background: a JD from UChi is no joke, a few years in a US Attorney’s office, a decade in Chicago’s Assembly (is this like learning politics on…
Well, and Your Humble Blogger is finally ready to start posting these notes about the candidates. I thought it would take a week, and it took a month. I’m hoping for lots of discussion, so I thought I’d lay out…
Your Humble Blogger is no Bright himself, but I do like the idea of Brights. I read an op-ed column by Daniel Dennett in this morning’s New York Times about The Brights, who are trying to get the use of…
Among the books I’ve been reading lately is the Selected Letters of Rebecca West (New Haven: Yale University Press © 2000). It’s vilely edited and annotated, and any of these one-sided books is frustrating anyway, but Dame Rebecca turns out…
Your Humble Blogger has been spending lots of time in Union stuff this week. I find it fascinating, and I’m really curious about how a particular paradox will play out. You see, I’m in a New Union (or whatever we…
Hmph. Sometimes, things that tickle Your Humble Blogger go sadly uncelebrated, and disappear into the snows of yesteryear with only my uncertain memory to remark their passing. At the moment, our society is, reluctantly, losing ground on the buzzword front,…
Your Humble Blogger just read Michael Kazin’s lengthy and provocative article about A Patriotic Left. It’s got quite a bit to chew on, and I suspect I will wind up disagreeing with much of it, once I’ve got a chance…
Well, and happy Independence Day, Gentle Readers all. It’s been some 237 years since the residents of this region declared themselves independent from their nonresident government, and, oddly enough, made it stick. When the rebellion succeeded, they managed to putter…
By the way, for those of you not familiar with the Naxos label, they not only have a tremendous selection of quality recordings at terrific prices, they also have Naxos Radio, to which Your Humble Blogger is listening right now….
Our Only President made some remarks yesterday about the rebuilding of Iraq. He did, to his credit, say that “The rise of Iraq as an example of moderation and democracy and prosperity is a massive and long-term undertaking.” He appeared…