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

End of the same old-same old?

I tell you, watching NewsHour just now and seeing George HW Bush and John McCain… boy. On one side we have really old, rich, white men accompanied by their harsh looking society matron wives. On the other side we  [more...]

February 18, 2008

On the Board

Right = Wrong

How will he pay for the 100 years in Iraq?

(02-17) 13:04 PST WASHINGTON, (AP) — Republican John McCain says there will be no new taxes during his administration if he is elected president. Read his lips. McCain told ABC’s “This Week” that  [more...]

February 17, 2008
Cacophony

A West Wing Christmastime

The President, First Lady, and Chief of Staff (Martin Sheen, Stockard Channing, John Spencer) from NBC’s “The West Wing” do a little bit of damage to their credibility on this ill-advised selection  [more...]

February 17, 2008
Right = Wrong

Republican Roundup

You know, I feel rather guilty that I’m not filling up my blog with diatribes about the right wing, as I used to do. It might be because moving to California helped me shake the political world of DC; but it is  [more...]

February 16, 2008
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Free range no longer

As I begin a new chapter of my life — as a cube dweller in Silicon Valley — I look back wistfully at the last three years… which, frankly, I feel like I wasted now. Oh, yes, I bummed around and sat in  [more...]

February 8, 2008
The War with the Customer

The Future is Murky

Dear San Jose Mercury News: I typically read your paper’s website every day — after I read the San Francisco Chronicle and the Washington Post — but am usually dismayed at the shallow reporting and  [more...]

February 7, 2008