AOL is having one of those days when all the connections are slow and tend to bump me off every ten minutes, so I have no idea if this is even getting written. But let me give it a shot–on bourgeois values, and on Cathy’s question as to whether anti-Semitism is just another instance of…

I once posted to this blog–and I’ve posted to various Internet forums over the years–a rule of thumb for supporting and acclaiming nations and their political systems around the world:  if the place has to pass laws to keep its people from leaving, you don’t want any part of it. Today, I’m ready to offer…

Every once in a while, something comes along that makes me think that if you could become a believer by sheer force of will, I’d do it. And yes, this is the second post of the day.  And yes, I have read all about Malcolm Muggeridge. But the new issue of Free Inquiry has come…

The trouble with Tuesdays is that I’m up, but I’m not up.  By the end of the week, I get tired at the end of the day.  On Mondays, the get-up-at-four-thirty thing is a shock.   On Tuesdays, I just want to go back to bed. Instead of that, I’ve got this big cup of tea…

So, I’ve been thinking. Isn’t it possible that a good policy could be wrongly implemented, and be bad in its implementation but good if implemented correctly? The movement for equitable funding of schools is not stupid or vicious, and I don’t see that it’s inherently totalitarian, either.  It says, simply, that every school district should…

So, it’s Saturday morning after a long week, and a week that isn’t really over yet.  I find myself sitting here with my huge cup of overbrewed tea–forty ounce cup, two teabags, steeped twenty minutes (and no, it doesn’t get cold)–thinking that I’ll just wander off and listen to harpsichords.  Mostly it’s a feeling that…

It’s Thursday morning, which at least means it’s Friday tomorrow.  And I’ve got three student papers to print out, even though I’ve told them I’d rather have the hard copy even if it has to be a class late.  And I’m tired, which is inevitable this time of the week.  And I’ve got a lot…

Which is what I’m doing here, so no real post today. BUT Every single article that went up new on Arts and Letters Daily today is about something we discuss endlessly here,  including literary novels and intellectuals. Just for a heads up.

Okay, THIRD post for the day. I’ll shut up tomorrow. But this http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_3_gop-voters.html is over on City Journal, and it’s making a point I try to make to Robert sometimes, and always seem to fail.

I know.  Two posts in a day. But this one’s just bitching, so feel free to skip it. It isn’t 9:30 in the morning, and I’m ready to explode, all over yet another round of cell phone chargers. That’s chargeRs. To explain:  every single cell phone I’ve ever had has had its charger either just…