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.

Maybe it was their Sunday morning religious show

It only took 3 seconds. I was flipping through channels for news on hurricane Frances. I stopped on Fox News Channel for just a moment — as soon as I turned it on a minute or two ago, the anchor was on the phone  [more...]

On the Board

Appeler nommé est le refuge du stupide

I am so sick of the right wingers using France as an all-purpose “enemy.” France was perhaps the most important single reason that this country was successfully founded and defended, but to the Republicans  [more...]

Children

I’m a bit ashamed that I haven’t posted anything here about the horror at the Russian school. I’ve been scouring the foreign media reading about, because there’s been little information in the  [more...]

Overflow

Man, there are so many good commentaries about the Republican convention in today’s Washington Post, so many that I’ve spent all morning just reproducing them here. It’s another one of those  [more...]

Veil

It’s a compulsion these Bush people have, this secrecy thing. I guess they figure that if they keep tight control on information, they can say almost anything without contradiction. But take a look at some of the  [more...]