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.

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers

Mac points out that the doctrine of Christian charity is obviously not in force — of course, it hasn’t been for quite a long time with the current brand of “Christianity” which mostly consists of  [more...]

On the Board

It never rains…

Holy crap — what news to wake up to. As if the horror in the south isn’t bad enough, now Chief Justice Rehnquist has died, leaving yet another opportunity for the Bush Administration to consolidate power and  [more...]

The buck stops… elsewhere

Here’s another failing of the Bush White House: they don’t know when to keep their mouth shut. Today — although suffering and horror continued on the Gulf Coast — troops streaming in to help  [more...]

Oh, and…

We have two competing world views in American politics. The first says that government cannot help people. That government must be as small as possible, and exists only to provide security from external enemies. The  [more...]