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

Perhaps he’s looking for the gay vote

I just point these little Bushisms out for the sake of comedy. I won’t make a big political thing out of it, I swear. Just a quick laugh. Really. Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me. Oh, and  [more...]

June 1, 2004

On the Board

The War with the Customer

The customer as criminal, part 2

The Boycott Gillette site claims that the razor company is not only embedding RFID chips in its products, but is actually taking photographs of customers when they pick up a package. One reason for this is evidently to  [more...]

June 1, 2004
Fun Stuff

More sex on TV… please

Boy, the FCC would choke on a pretzel over this one: Mark Thompson, the new director-general of the BBC, is leaving a controversial legacy behind him as he leaves his old as chief executive of Channel 4. He has approved  [more...]

June 1, 2004
Right = Wrong

PBS is leaning, too

Hot on the heels of the report branding NPR as right leaning, comes this news about PBS: Like a chameleon that turns the color of its surroundings to avoid predators, the Public Broadcasting System – for decades  [more...]

June 1, 2004
Right = Wrong

That home court advantage again

I’ve complained about this before, and now mainstream media is getting into the action: President Bush is using Air Force One for re-election travel more heavily than any predecessor, wringing maximum political  [more...]

June 1, 2004
Fun Stuff

Tech for tech’s sake

You know me — if there’s some new gadget I must have it immediately. So, when I learned that Vonage now offers a “soft phone” for Macintosh, I signed right up. Basically, this is a telephone that  [more...]

June 1, 2004