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.

In living color

Today is the 50th anniversary of color television.
Amazingly, color televisions have still not penetrated into 100% of television-owning homes.
Just a interesting little factoid. I’m here to educate.

On the Board

The L Word

I just heard yet another guy from the Family Research Center give a softer version of their anti-love arguments for marriage. On Morning Edition (without Bob this morning), he gave the usual litany of reasons for  [more...]

A good kid

A teenager who tangled with Microsoft Corp. over his mikerowesoft.com domain name said he is donating most of his legal defense fund to a hospice for children. Mike Rowe, 17, wrote in a posting on his Web site that he  [more...]

Just three little words

I’m not gonna harp about the new era we live in, where a television network is a propaganda tool of the White House, but isn’t it frightening how often these three words appear these days? … armed with  [more...]

Things to watch for

In this presidential campaign, there will be a lot of fuzzy math. Michael Kinsley reports: One of the weapons in Bush’s arsenal is an old family heirloom. Bush fired it himself during his big Florida rally over  [more...]

Extremes on both sides

The Washington Post features an opinion piece today looking at the military responses to terrorism from both Clinton and Bush. Among its conclusions, the column points out the lack of military resolve from the Clinton  [more...]