Just As I Thought

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.

Interpretation

The thing about closed-minded fundamentalists and other nutcases — read “Our Leader” — is that they narrowly interpret what they see, hear, and read to fit their world view. The most famous  [more...]

On the Board

Irony in the epidermis

Seen by my pal Teresa today at Kinko’s:
 My ‘helper’ was a stoner with ‘NOTHING IS PERMANENT’ permanently tattooed on the inside of his forearm.

The era of confirmation

There are many of us — in the real world, not the bizarro world conjured up by Bushco — who have had 20/20 vision from the start. We’re the ones who said, years ago, that Iraq had no connection to al  [more...]

Either will work

As we wait for another Bush speech to the UN — seems like a flashback to the beginnings of the neocon justification for war in Iraq, doesn’t it? — I’m reminded of my favorite quote from the movie  [more...]