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
Right = Wrong

Miscalculation

Interesting: the BBC quotes The New York Times quotes George W. Bush: US President George W Bush has acknowledged for the first time that he made a “miscalculation” of what conditions would be in post-war  [more...]

August 27, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Non-service with a smile

Let’s take a look at the people who are running the country now — the ones who are reveling in the criticism of John Kerry’s Vietnam service — via the New York Times: In what is surely the most  [more...]

August 27, 2004
Right = Wrong

Distraction

E. J. Dionne has a possible explanation for Dick Cheney’s off-message comments about same-sex relationships: … social conservatives were so outraged by Cheney’s statement that on Wednesday they  [more...]

August 27, 2004
General Annoyances

Getting darker

Every day I think we’re slipping further into a new dark age, mostly when I read the new outrages from the Bush administration. But that’s on top of the dumbing down of our society and the lack of  [more...]

August 25, 2004
Right = Wrong

Eh, what do them eggheads know, anyway

Now this is what I call an Endorsement with a capital E: ten — count ’em — Nobel Prize-winning economists have endorsed John Kerry for president. The Democratic presidential nominee released a letter  [more...]

August 25, 2004