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
General Annoyances

Much ado about nothing

Over the years, I have truly come to hate “Seinfeld.” Sadly, I think the reason for my annoyance at this show is the hype that accompanied it. Too often, hype has ruined my opinion of something. For  [more...]

August 8, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Quotable

“The one thing we can say about George W. Bush is we will be forever in his debt.” — Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), after the administration’s recent announcement that this year’s deficit, an  [more...]

August 7, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Bewildered or beheaded?

Now, this is odd: a website video has been released showing yet another American beheaded in Iraq. ABC News reports that the victim in the video claims to be a San Francisco man who is running for city supervisor, and  [more...]

August 7, 2004
Right = Wrong

Timeline

Finally — someone’s done what I’ve been agitating for for a long time: they’ve put together a timeline of terror alerts, showing the correlation to dips in approval ratings and political events  [more...]

August 6, 2004
Right = Wrong

Fealty

The story came out earlier in the week, the story that seems almost impossible and must be one of those urban myths — that people attending a Dick Cheney speech were required to sign pledges of loyalty. Holy crap  [more...]

August 6, 2004