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
General Annoyances

Our fat county nightmare is over

Thom reports that the naming of Arlington, Virginia as the fifth fattest city in the US was in error. In fact, they meant Arlington, Texas. From the Northern Virginia Journal: This case of mistaken identity began  [more...]

January 6, 2004

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Nyah nyah.

Evidently, a couple of the “Bush in 30 Seconds” entries compared Bush to Hitler. MoveOn decried the content of the entries, which were disqualified. Some flunky at MoveOn.org posted one to their website  [more...]

January 6, 2004
Right = Wrong

All About Ashcroft

I’m sure that some of these rumors, published today by Lloyd Grove in the New York Daily News, are just that — rumors. But sometimes this sort of thing is grounded in the truth, isn’t it? If it’s  [more...]

January 6, 2004
Right = Wrong

Bush in 30 Seconds

Oh, there’s so much fodder there, but entrants in MoveOn.org’s Bush in 30 Seconds competition had to pick and choose to fit their outrage into a 30 second spot. The finalists in this contest to produce an  [more...]

January 5, 2004
General Annoyances

The fabled other shoe

There’s always more to the story. We’ve already seen the additional dirt on the Walmart trampling case, and now there’s a coda to the story of Timothy Treadwell, the man who was mauled by a bear. I was  [more...]

January 5, 2004