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.

On the Board

And the winner is

The Statue of Liberty has re-opened. But you can’t climb up. Just to visit the base, you must go through invasive security procedures twice (one of which uses puffs of air to get under your clothing), and have a  [more...]

Case Closed

Maura sends over a list of the Annual Stella Awards, named after the woman who sued McDonald’s after spilling coffee on herself. You know, those ridiculous people who are responsible for the branding of every  [more...]

Fools rush in

You know, there was a rush to reorganize the government after September 11, and we ended up with a Department of Homeland Security. The DHS was the result of the need to communicate between intelligence and law  [more...]

Closed

Is this overkill? The feds are closing streets here in DC, and placing roadblocks and checkpoints at others. Indefinitely. We’ve already lost Pennsylvania Avenue as a through-way in the city, now it’s  [more...]

A little late

Holy cow. I was on the verge of being on the side of the government with the latest terror alert, here in Washington and up in New York & New Jersey. I should have known better. Get this: Most of the al Qaeda  [more...]