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
Right = Wrong

False sense of…

Take a gander at Stupid Security and learn about the silliness that has cropped up around the new industry of Homeland Security… such as: Every day the UPS guy comes to the company where I work. Every day since  [more...]

April 11, 2003

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Midnight Robbery in Washington

While you were busy watching looting in the streets of Baghdad, you missed the looting in Washington. In the dead of night – or morning, it was just before dawn – Congress passed a record $2.27 trillion  [more...]

April 11, 2003
General Annoyances

Don’t blame me, I’m not responsible

A whiny, ridiculous letter in today’s Washington Post that bugged me enough that I wrote a response: Westward, Ho! Friday, April 11, 2003; Page A26 After 10 arduous years in the District, I’m out of there  [more...]

April 11, 2003
General Annoyances

Winging in from the east, the West Wing

I’m having a great time watching The West Wing on DVD, which arrived via air mail yesterday. Two things: Why do I have to order American television programs from England because they won’t sell them in  [more...]

April 10, 2003
Right = Wrong

Saddam? At what cost?

I don’t know what to feel anymore about this war. Other than horror, I mean. We know, we knew, that Saddam Hussein is evil. That he has and will continue to place innocents in harm’s way. We know this, and  [more...]

April 8, 2003
Right = Wrong

Muslim vs. Muslim

What comes next in Iraq, once Saddam Hussein is gone? More and more, I’m afraid, I think it will be civil war along religious lines of division. Each day I’m hearing more stories of the consolidation of the  [more...]

April 8, 2003