Just As I Thought
Fun Stuff

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.

April 24, 2023
Fun Stuff

Hollywood Hokum

One of the coolest things about my job designing publications for social studies teachers is the many interesting documents that come my way from the National Archives. The education staff there find the most amazing  [more...]

November 8, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Yet more fuzzy math

Spin really only works if you don’t think too hard. The Bush gang keeps saying, and now it’s been picked up by news outlets, that Bush was the first president to gain a majority of votes since 1988. The  [more...]

November 8, 2004
Right = Wrong

Welcome to fundamentalist America

The Bill of Rights says that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. It doesn’t say anything about an establishment of religion making a government. We’ve become a theocracy  [more...]

November 8, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Popular guy

It’s true — it never rains, it pours. Since I’ve been dating B, it seems that the guys on Match.com have suddenly discovered me. In the last week, I’ve gotten 7 winks and 2 emails. It’s an  [more...]

November 7, 2004
Right = Wrong

What unemployment?

Merlin’s List of five possible career moves for John Ashcroft: become genial TV spokesman for Crisco, the preferred ad hoc head-anointing oil of evangelicals everywhere hang out at the food court; throw piping-hot  [more...]

November 7, 2004
Fun Stuff

I saw the signs

Jeff Nelson uses his sign-painting talents to good advantage during the election. Take a look at some of the signs that have popped up in front of his Victorian house in Ohio.
[via Typographica]

November 7, 2004