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.

Hindsight

Another civilian — this time, a South Korean — has been kidnapped in Saudi Arabia, with the kidnappers threatening beheading. It’s strange, even though there are people dying everyday in the middle  [more...]

On the Board

Style Invitational: What’s in a slogan?

The results of the latest Style Invitational, where entrants were asked to write a sign or slogan for a business: Reddi-Wip: From Our Can to Yours (Jean Sorensen, Herndon) Sperm bank: Procreation Without Representation  [more...]

From basement to basement

It’s amazing, but evidently Spiro Agnew is important enough to have an archive. Today’s Washington Post reports about the strange things contained in the archive at the University of Maryland. Researchers  [more...]

Ode to Ronnie

You think that the coverage of Reagan last week went overboard? You should listen to this hilarious song, touting such Reagan accomplishments as being “shot for taking a stand” or some such thing. I’ve  [more...]

Bush’s 7 minutes

It’ll go down in history like the strange gap in Nixon’s tapes: the inaction of President Bush while the county was under terrorist attack. Evidently, the new Michael Moore film contains a seven-minute  [more...]

Friends in high places

I’ll quote this article without any editorial comment. It doesn’t need any. The White House is playing down a report that President Bush appealed to Vatican officials to encourage U.S. bishops to take a more  [more...]