And now for a brief rant. The pundit class may be inexhaustibly devoted to the spit-warm take that we should sympathize with and seek to mollify these anti-public-health sadopopulist wombat cubes with weeping sores where their empathy should be. But I’m well past exhausted and cracked the needle on the annoyance knob long ago. Never
Good afternoon! Things to be noted: Remember when I advised you, dear readers, to BURY THEM in votes? Well, just imagine if we hadn’t! I have for some reason not added to the 900 words I wrote on TLT last week. From the people who brought you fifty billion hearings on Benghazi, we are suddenly
A couple of blogs ago I used to borrow Harriet Vane’s method of detective synthesis and make corresponding lists of “Things To Be Noted” and “Things To Be Done.” It was a fun posting format, but honestly so many of the things to be noted at present would have a corresponding line item reading “Nothing
It’s been one of those “she has a three” weeks, to be honest. 2020 in general and the pandemic in particular has tied together all the salley ropes of my alarm bells, so if you ring one, you ring them all. A church friend died suddenly; another friend has been in hospital; people I know
Look, we’ve been over this. I have been over this, in this blog, which is not even my political venue of choice. This blog is supposed to be a place for my own benign commentary on writing, my own and other people’s; remember “benign commentary?” To me it’s like one of those spiders you fit
So, for reasons which it would be redundant to go over, I’ve been watching a lot of BBC detectives of late. I finally succumbed to the lure of a Britbox subscription even though I resent the way they shell-game all the shows I want to watch between one subscription or another; look, if I wanted
The new leaves are out and making a deep susurrus when the wind gusts. Spring is no longer a matter of anticipation. So this morning I took my elevenses out on my balcony, to get my share of the sunlight before the shadow of the roof sliced it off. Clearing off my deck from the