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.

The Mysterious Miers

I just can’t decide what the whole Miers nomination was about. Either the White House figured that they’d get her confirmed because she had no judicial experience and therefore no one could look at her past;  [more...]

On the Board

Days away from home

Was over at the house yet again today — it seems like I’ve been there every day this week. Today it was a second termite inspection, because I’m just paranoid, you know? Nothing much to speak of  [more...]

Bad timing

You know what sucks about living here on the west coast? When I’ve had a few drinks — the prime time for calling friends to talk about the sorts of things that you only talk about when you’re drunk  [more...]

Tom DeLay really gets up my nose

Well, despite his attempts at making a mug shot look like a publicity photo, someone did manage to use it to call attention to Tom DeLay’s two-faced ways.
Or, at least, to his possible nosejob.

Smile, it’s Wal-Mart

The astonishing news that Wal-Mart is in favor of a hike in the minimum wage is not so strange when you think about it. It turns out that Wal-Mart’s economic impact — the massive loss of American jobs since  [more...]

This just doesn’t seem like America

There was one issue in last night’s Commander in Chief that was timely: torture. I am ashamed of what my country has done in my name, using terrorism as an excuse; there was once a time when America was a beacon  [more...]