Just As I Thought

Portrait of the Artist

Ah, that day when my friends Sara and Lance and I went to the Hirshhorn gallery to see the Laurie Anderson exhibit, and turned around to discover that we were being followed by… Laurie Anderson.

On the Board

We don’t need no education

It seems that I am shaking my head in bewilderment a lot these last 4 years, and the incredulity just keeps coming: On that long-ago day of Alabama’s great shame, Gov. George C. Wallace (D) stood in a schoolhouse  [more...]

Silence=Death

It’s been more than a week since the Washington Post ran a horrid, racially-targeted screed against gay people as an advertising supplement — since then, I’ve been scouring the paper waiting to see  [more...]

Blame Canada

An American sociologist living in Canada writes about that country’s growing anti-Americanisn in today’s Washington Post. It’s an interesting look at an issue that was broached earlier this week and  [more...]

Hated

September 11 brought about hand wringing and a familiar refrain from many liberals: why do they hate us? Hard to answer sometimes, being entwined in oil and Mideast policy; but it’s gotten much easier lately: the  [more...]

One party rule

I have long thought that the Republicans were creating new rules and redistricting themselves into power permanently, the evidence is all around us. Now, there’s some pretty obvious evidence of what they’re  [more...]