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

Reasons to move to Canada, Part III

In honor of Canada Day, a long and interesting article: Just when you had all but forgotten that carbon-based life exists above the 49th parallel, those sly Canadians have redefined their entire nation as Berkeley North  [more...]

July 1, 2003

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Workin’ overtime on this issue

Last week I posted about proposed Labor Department regulations that would eliminate overtime pay for a significant portion of the workforce. Today the Post reports that the department has received more than 75,000  [more...]

July 1, 2003
Right = Wrong

Blame it on Clinton - still.

Dubya has now begun blaming Bush Recession II on Bill Clinton. “Two-and-a-half years ago, we inherited an economy in recession,” he told donors at a Bush-Cheney ’04 reception yesterday in Miami. He has  [more...]

July 1, 2003
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

It’s only Slate

Jeff points out that an article in Slate mentions a series of DC blogs (including his), and in a dubious distinction, I am the only blogger mentioned by name. Of the 600-odd entries here, article author Brian Montopoli  [more...]

July 1, 2003
Fun Stuff

End of the phone company? I don’t think so

In Business 2.0, Erick Schonfeld opines that Apple’s iChat AV will mean the end for phone companies: The folks who should be the most worried about this development are the phone companies. While video IM works  [more...]

June 30, 2003
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Katharine Hepburn

It’s so depressing when you have spent the day not being in touch with the news, only to find out in the evening that something like this has happened. What a grand and classy dame she was. I truly feel that now  [more...]

June 29, 2003