I’ve followed Ravelry drama much more closely than the election this year, with a few exceptions for really brilliant election moments. There’s a joke whispering around Ravelry about how Casey (the code monkey half of the husband/wife team behind the entire site) should run for President. I have to say after watching the guy do [...]
Many popular and well-loved bloggers occasionally resort to posts of random miscellany. I poked around in the Way Back Machine yesterday and found some of the earliest Cobweb posts, as it appears the good folks at the Internet Archive are better at holding onto our posts than our old hosting company. I used to blog [...]
I read a lot about how Obama failed spectacularly to distance himself from the racially-charged statements of his pastor, and had little interest in reading “the race speech” (probably to be filed in the history books right after Romney’s “faith speech” as the rhetorical means and ends were pretty similar). Even so, I wandered into [...]
I often think, especially while reading the unbroken streams of drivel posted by the Prairie Muffins and ideologically similar folks, that those who object most strenuously to perceived moral flaws in the world have deep, private flaws of their own. Apparently the soon-to-be ex-governor of New York is another tick in this box: Gov. Eliot [...]
I am just going to post the link to this: Fry and Hitchens: Blasphemy. I’ve only just started listening to it, but I am already fascinated. Update: I should add that the conversation is very expertly moderated by Joan Bakewell.