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

Fuzzy Math again

How does this silly government actually work? The Labor department reports that unemployment is down slightly, from 6% in December to 5.7% in January. But these numbers are essentially meaningless. One would assume that  [more...]

February 8, 2003

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Say goodbye to American freedom

The Bush administration, not content with the sickening “PATRIOT Act,” is now drafting an even more disgusting piece of legislation that will curtail civil liberties, create more secret trials, and allow  [more...]

February 8, 2003
Fun Stuff

Blast from the past

Making the rounds on those joke e-mails: One night, George W. Bush is awakened by George Washington’s ghost in the White House. Bush asks him; “George, what’s the best thing I can do to help the  [more...]

February 7, 2003
Right = Wrong

He must have been counting on his fingers

Today’s Washington Post (I start a lot of entries with that phrase, don’t I?) reports on the actual spending amounts in Bush’s 2004 budget. It turns out that many of the programs he touted, including  [more...]

February 7, 2003
The War with the Customer

Visa should verify their continuity

I just saw a Visa commercial with Emmit Smith (the second one in 10 minutes – is he getting a bit overexposed?). In one shot, he’s clearly using an Apple Titanium Powerbook. When the camera shoots over his  [more...]

February 5, 2003
The War with the Customer

Who are they trying to kid?

Oh, that Comedy Central. The BBC presented a one-off Christmas special of Absolutely Fabulous in 2002, and now Comedy Central will broadcast it this Saturday. The title of this episode (in Britain, anyway) was  [more...]

February 5, 2003