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.

One stop stupidity

I was hoping someone would collect all the stupid things people have said about the hurricane and its aftermath. Thank goodness for this site. “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees  [more...]

On the Board

Crazy credentials

There’s a campaign going on by supporters of Attorney General Gonzalez to get him on the Supreme Court. They’re pushing back against the fundamentalist right wingers who say that he’s not conservative  [more...]

He must only look at the pictures

Ah, if only the president had read the October 2004 edition of National Geographic — of course, he was too busy scaring everybody to death in order to be re-elected. He’d have read, in great detail, all  [more...]

… and there’s still 3 years to go

The latest poll numbers on the question Overall, do you approve, disapprove or have mixed feelings about the way George W. Bush is handling his job as President?: Approve: 39% (down from 42 one month ago) Disapprove:  [more...]

Let’s sum up, shall we?

Mark Murford sums up the salient points about the Bush administration’s response to Katrina quickly, to the point, with the right amount of sarcasm and without the crush of every little detail that would obscure  [more...]