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

How long will we be scared?

I’ve been tentatively hopeful that the American system is somewhat self-correcting; this feeling has been reinforced lately by the continuing downfall of the Republicans and their attempts to place themselves into  [more...]

December 14, 2005

On the Board

Right = Wrong

The Icarus Factor

As we all know by now, the Republicans have been working to create a permanent, perpetual majority in government for some time. Fred Hiatt talks about the “chinks in the Republican armor” today in the  [more...]

December 12, 2005
The War with the Customer

Fill’r Up

Let me preface this by saying that I won’t even bother to come up with a good excuse or justification for what I did; I expend too much energy trying to do that and frankly, I’m an adult. That said, I bought  [more...]

December 11, 2005
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

Never drink and meet

Last night was my neighborhood’s annual “roaming party,” which wanders from house to house — only two houses this year, I gather that it’s been at least 3 in prior years. I was, as usual  [more...]

December 11, 2005
Right = Wrong

Does anyone still remember “fuzzy math?”

First, the Bush administration rammed through huge tax cuts for the richest among us. This squandered the huge surplus left by Clinton, and then plunged us from there straight down the fiscal graph into the largest  [more...]

December 10, 2005