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

Need a pavilion?

Got room in your backyard? Don’t want one of those little Home Depot gazebos? Call the National Park Service – they have a very special pavilion to dispose of. From WPVI-TV [via Fark]: The National Park  [more...]

September 10, 2003

On the Board

Fun Stuff

Trading Places

Sara reports that she auditioned yesterday for a new ABC reality show called “Switch” – the premise is that people switch lives for 4 days. Sounds like a twist on the Brit show “Faking It”  [more...]

September 10, 2003
Right = Wrong

The government needs more crayons

I have a sneaking suspicion that in his classes on management and logistics back at Yale, Dubya was given a Crayola 4-pack of crayons — the same little sampler you get for your kids to draw on placemats in a  [more...]

September 9, 2003
Right = Wrong

Bush’s pawns

I’d love to post this entire column by Courtland Milloy in today’s Post; but I suppose that I would run afoul of copyright law – so here are some extended excerpts. Take a few moments to read the whole  [more...]

September 8, 2003
Fun Stuff

AOL AS A S3COND LANGUAEG

If George Bush were a 12-year-old on AOL: IF TEH WORLD FALES 2 CONFRONT TEH THRAAT POSED BY DA IRAQI REGIEM R3FUSNG 2 USA FORCE AVEN AS A LAST RASORT FRE NATIONS WUD ASUMA IMANS3 AND UNAC3PTABLE RISKS!11! WTF DA ATAKS  [more...]

September 7, 2003
Right = Wrong

Just another prime time pseudo-reality show

Does it seem to you that our President simply flails about from plan to plan? That he has no carefully thought out process toward a goal, but just tries one thing after another until he gets it right? He did it in the  [more...]

September 7, 2003