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

General Annoyances

Sidewalk-Free Illinois Neighborhood Arresting Scores of Black Pedestrians

It’s amazing what kinds of telling data a Freedom of Information Act request can turn up. Dynamics between black residents of Champaign-Urbana Illinois and the police have been fraught in recent years since the [more...]

August 30, 2012

On the Board

General Annoyances

Maddow: Democratic Voter Registration ‘Devastated’ in Florida

“…there’s a real strategy here. One is suppression, the other is frustration of minority voters. Not just stopping them from voting, discourage them because it’s so hard to do. In states like [more...]

August 30, 2012

Fun Stuff

Film, food and fun

The numbers behind the ninth annual D.C. Shorts Film Festival are staggering: 140 films under 20 minutes long, 27 countries, four venues, eight chefs, 16 showcases, 11 days, five parties and six screenplays staged by [more...]

August 30, 2012

Fun Stuff

UK firemen called to rescue cow stuck up a tree

“The vet checked the cow over and it seemed reasonably happy and relatively unscathed.”

August 30, 2012

Right = Wrong

Republican convention week: Tour the many homes of Mitt Romney

August 30, 2012

Right = Wrong

Great piece by @CitizenCohn dismantling the staggering dishonesty of Paul Ryan’s speech

RT @ThePlumLineGS: Great piece by @CitizenCohn dismantling the staggering dishonesty of Paul Ryan’s speech: You’re going to read and hear a lot about Paul Ryan’s speech on Wednesday night. And I imagine most of it [more...]

August 30, 2012

Ryan: Create deficit, block solution, blame Obama, further blame him for not accepting blame http://t.co/iEL1ZGs1 (via @jonathanchait)

Ryan: Create deficit, block solution, blame Obama, further blame him for not accepting blame (via @jonathanchait)

August 30, 2012