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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

What group do you suppose knows the most about the tenets of various religions? Evangelical Protestants? Um, no. Catholics? They didn’t even get half the questions right. Shall I tell you? It was the atheists and agnostics, that’s who. The results of this poll won’t surprise you at all, sadly. Most religious people don’t really know religion. That much is clear from the way they act, it didn’t really require a poll.

U.S. Religious Knowledge Survey – Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

September 28, 2010

Just the other day, President Obama urged other countries to stop censoring the Internet. But now the United States Congress is trying to censor the Internet here at home. A new bill being debated this week would have the Attorney General create an Internet blacklist of sites that US Internet providers would be required to block. This is the kind of heavy-handed censorship you’d expect from a dictatorship, where one man can decide what web sites you’re not allowed to visit. But the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to pass the bill this week — and Senators say they haven’t heard much in the way of objections! That’s why we need you to sign our urgent petition to Congress demanding they oppose the Internet blacklist.

Stop the Internet Blacklist!

September 27, 2010