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

Let’s get pragmatic

I’m a little bugged by all the hits Barack Obama is taking on inviting Rick Warren, the admittedly repugnant fundie from Saddleback Church, to give the invocation at his inaugural. First off, when explaining his  [more...]

December 18, 2008

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Remember: Bush is still wreaking havoc

Another last-minute twist courtesy of the current occupant: The Bush administration today issued a sweeping new regulation that protects a broad range of health-care workers — from doctors to janitors — who  [more...]

December 18, 2008
Right = Wrong

The hilarious result of mega-bank mergers

So, let me get this straight: the taxpayers have shoveled billions and billions and hundreds of billions of dollars into the vaults of the big banks with the idea that they would then lend it to us. In other words  [more...]

December 16, 2008
Right = Wrong

And my house is an estate

No other recent first family has lived in a city neighborhood like the Obamas. The $1.6 million mansion he and his wife, Michelle, share with their two young daughters sits just off a busy street — a stretch of  [more...]

December 14, 2008
The War with the Customer

Crunching the numbers

I've been somewhat anal about logging my fuel consumption since getting my new car. I have three different calculations going, which shows how numbers are hardly incontrovertible facts these days.

December 5, 2008