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

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Roosting chickens comin’ home

The White House is admitting to a “blunder” in claiming that Iraq was pursuing nuclear weapons via African uranium. This 4-paragraph wire service version is from the notoriously right-wing Washington Times  [more...]

July 8, 2003
Right = Wrong

Savagely dumped

Thank goodness MSNBC has seen reason – they’ve dumped hateful host Michael Savage. As so often happens in the rough-and-tumble world of live call-in TV, while the hard-working producer is fully prepared to  [more...]

July 8, 2003
Right = Wrong

What’s good for the goose

I can imagine why there are some Republicans who are uneasy with the campaign to recall California’s Democratic (and increasingly unpopular) Governor Davis. The recall effort is being pushed by a shockingly  [more...]

July 8, 2003
The War with the Customer

Cheesy promises from Kraft

This week, Kraft (a subsidiary of RJ Reynolds Tobacco, by the way) announced that it was concerned about the rise of obesity and would take steps to fight it: The commitments Kraft is making, which are global in scope  [more...]

July 7, 2003
General Annoyances

TV notes

Watchin’ a bit of TV on Sunday evening, and had a few comments – what else is new, eh? Saw a commercial for Bank of America, where a woman ducks her head into a barbershop and asks, “Is there a Bank of  [more...]

July 6, 2003