Agora 27 Jun 2008 11:53 pm
When you’re caught between apoplexy and despair, your writing might get a little disjointed. You’re prone to ask too many rhetorical questions. Like this:
For hundreds of years, we have understood in this country that “keeping and bearing arms” is different from “having a loaded gun in the drawer of your nightstand.” Now we don’t. Devolution. [...]
Random 21 May 2008 3:08 pm
The lefty blogs have gone so batscheiss crazy over the fact that Clinton is still in the race, it’s impossible to read them. So, for some weeks now, I haven’t. It’s very pleasant.
I finally got around to reading a novel a friend gave me a while back, Beyond Sleep, by the Dutch writer Willem Frederik [...]
Agora 1 May 2008 11:47 am
Happy Birthday, Miss Ion Accomplished! Five years old today. You’ve gotten so big I hardly recognize you.
Freedom is on the march everywhere. In my town, starting today you can look just about anywhere and smile into the camera. A friendly Homeland Security employee will take note. Feel free to give the “thumbs up” sign—they love [...]
Random 19 Dec 2007 12:22 am
Sunday was Show Us Your Blog Space Day. I found out about it (belatedly) over at the Newsrack Blog, whose proprietor was invited to participate. I figure my invitation was lost in the mail or something (this being the busy holiday season for the good old US Postal Service).
I hadn’t realized there was a pent-up [...]
Agora 26 Nov 2007 11:29 pm
A few weeks ago I saw a Ford commercial on TV that really depressed me. I wasn’t sure I heard it correctly, so I went online to verify the bad news. It was true: e-mail will be infiltrating Ford automobiles. And not just e-mail—you’ll be ensconced in a 55-mph cellphone. Or is it a 70-mph [...]
Random 30 Oct 2007 8:32 pm
I stumbled across a review of a book called Novels in Three Lines by Félix Fénéon, and given how I admire concision (or say I do, at any rate), I just had to take a look. The title in French, Nouvelles en trois lignes, is actually a pun: nouvelles can be taken as either “novellas” [...]
Random 23 Oct 2007 5:50 pm
Peddling through Georgetown this morning, I saw this bumper sticker:
Don’t believe everything you think
A block or so later, this:
MILITANT AGNOSTIC
I don’t know & you don’t either
Skeptic to the right of me, skeptic to the left of me …
Discuss quietly within yourself.
Russia 21 Sep 2007 6:51 pm
A website I don’t visit often enough is Подслушано в России [Overheard in Russia]. A number of such “Overheard in …” sites exist, actually. They remind me of the Metropolitan Diary in the New York Times, where readers share conversations, exclamations, exhortations, or other utterances they happened to experience by chance in New York City [...]
Random 5 Jun 2007 1:51 am
What keeps a guy off his blog? Well, these kind of things:
Launching a redesigned website at his day job. The really fun part is cleaning up afterwards. It’s not just that things don’t always work as planned. It’s the old links. Once you let a link loose in the world, it takes on a life [...]
Agora 20 May 2007 10:35 pm
Who said it?
I’m struggling with seeing the deployment of cameras in our local villages as being a benefit to policing. If it’s in our villages—are we really moving towards an Orwellian situation with cameras on every street corner? I really don’t think that’s the kind of country that I want to live in.
If it weren’t [...]
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