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

Fun Stuff

Today’s Style Invitational has a pretty high percentage of good ones. The premise was simple: what is the difference between two people (real or fictional) with similar names. The difference between Dave Barry and [more...]

June 6, 2004

On the Board

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

“I watched the carnage unfold.”

Sergeant Bernard Morgan, who was there: I remember seeing all the dead bodies littering the beach. Some were killed on the first landing. They were fodder for the German guns. Others were washed in by the tide where [more...]

June 6, 2004

Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Well, strike me

Wow — a lot can happen while you’re deeply ensconced working on stuff. Take a moment to look around and you discover that your earlier rant about the possibility of Ronald Reagan’s demise came eerily [more...]

June 5, 2004

Right = Wrong

Good news, bad news

The good news is that the economy added 248,000 jobs in May. The bad news is that the unemployment rate is still unchanged, and there’s still a large net loss of jobs during this administration’s watch: [more...]

June 5, 2004

General Annoyances

Bitch set him up

June 5, 2004

Right = Wrong

Name Dropping

If I were some kind of ultra-lefty conspiracy theorist, I’d have to ask myself: is the news about the impending demise of Ronald Reagan being released now to divert attention from Bush’s continuing woes, and [more...]

June 5, 2004

Right = Wrong

Not surprising, redux

The Interfaith Alliance has something to say about the tactics of the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign: Today, The Interfaith Alliance denounced an initiative from the Bush-Cheney campaign seeking to enlist campaign support in [more...]

June 3, 2004