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.

iPartisan

The speeches from the Republican convention are also being provided free of charge on the iTunes music store, just as the speeches from the Democratic convention were. I wonder if they will release any download numbers  [more...]

On the Board

Are they blind?

Republican Party leaders touted the advent of what they called a period of “Bush prosperity” Wednesday as their national gathering to promote President Bush and Vice President Cheney for a second term  [more...]

I should save this stuff

I just realized that sometimes I write much better, more insightful, and just plain funnier prose when commenting on other people’s blogs, rather than the entries on my own.

Leading… where?

Here’s an interesting angle on Bush that I hadn’t grasped before: he’s running on being a “strong leader”, but there’s no mention of where he’s led us or where he intends to  [more...]

Destruction

All those hurricanes coming our way this year are really making a mess. So, to make things more interesting, I propose a change in the way they’re named. I think that hurricane should be named after the current  [more...]

Stick it

Meanwhile, as evidence that some uniquely American freedoms are still extant — at least, in some government agencies — The Smoking Gun has used the Photostamps program to create legal postage featuring  [more...]