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.

No, no, no, no

I’m smiling this morning, something I’m not used to doing the morning after an election. Now, there was some bad news — for example, Texas passed a ban on same-sex marriage even though it was already  [more...]

On the Board

Republican hypocrisy today: November 8, 2005

Okay, well, this is pretty obvious, but I feel the need to point it out anyway, since I’m all about the hypocrisy. The White House leaked secret information: the name of a covert CIA agent, to discredit her  [more...]

A case of the scribbles

Well, some of you might have tried to visit this site earlier today only to discover some kind of “unreachable” message — Comcast has some trouble with numbers. I asked them to connect service at my  [more...]

It’s never too late to learn

So, the White House staff is now going to attend mandatory classes on ethics. This is hilarious given that the rallying cry for Bush — at the beginning — was to “restore dignity” to the White  [more...]

My, how we’ve changed

We are just not a nice country anymore. I mean, we have state-sponsored torture. We invade other countries because we’re worried they might be a threat. We treat minorities of one sort or another like second class  [more...]