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

A couple of the jokes from last Saturday’s Gridiron Club dinner. From Hillary Clinton: “In the Clinton administration, we used to say in eight years, we’ve added more than 22 million new jobs,” [more...]

March 9, 2004

On the Board

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

We never remember the past?

In the last couple of years, the field I work in — social studies — has been under attack from the right wing, claiming that social studies undermines the teaching of history. This is patently ridiculous, as [more...]

March 9, 2004

Right = Wrong

What do they have to hide?

I’m so tired of hearing that the President, who wears September 11 like a badge of honor, will not appear before the September 11 Commission without significant restrictions and secrecy. It smacks of his hemming [more...]

March 9, 2004

Right = Wrong

Just a question

Dubya is accusing John Kerry of wanting to slash funding for intelligence agencies.
Well, considering the poor showing of our intelligence agencies, is Bush claiming that they would have been worse off with less money?

March 9, 2004

Right = Wrong

Cleared by the State

March 8, 2004

General Annoyances

Next: a color code for the water supply

You’ve no doubt heard of the trouble we’re having in D.C. with the municipal water supply — it seems to have elevated levels of lead in it, and the problem seems to have also cropped up in Arlington [more...]

March 7, 2004

Fun Stuff

That video look

A lot of time and effort has gone into television production to try to make the fluid motion of video look like film. The differing frame rates of video and film make converting between the two fraught with mathematics: [more...]

March 7, 2004