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

Goodbye, Spot

You may not believe me, but I feel genuine sympathy for the first family today: their dog Spot has died. An administration official told CNN that Spot was put to sleep Saturday around 1:30 p.m. after suffering a series  [more...]

February 21, 2004

On the Board

General Annoyances

Portrait of a jerk

Seen today at my local 7-11: Okay, pal — you quite properly avoided parking in the handicapped space, but did it occur to you when you instead illegally parked in the lined off area next to it that the wheelchair  [more...]

February 21, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Learned my lesson too well

At the end of the article I just wrote about on the erroneous perception of SUV safety, there’s an interesting paragraph: In psychology, there is a concept called learned helplessness, which arose from a series of  [more...]

February 21, 2004
The War with the Customer

It is safe?

I think I found this article via Jason Kottke, but it’s been sitting in my dock for a while so I’m not sure of it’s provenance. Anyway, it’s an illuminating look at SUVs and the idiocy  [more...]

February 21, 2004
Right = Wrong

The language of discrimination

Read this quote in the same article from my previous posting: “We cannot permit a few states and cities to force same-sex marriage on the rest of America, especially since a majority of Americans oppose it and two  [more...]

February 21, 2004
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

They’ve got guts

Bravo to those clerks who stand up for equality. Now Sandoval County, New Mexico county clerk Victoria Dunlap decided to issue same-sex marriage licenses, after the county attorney decided that New Mexico law defined  [more...]

February 21, 2004