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

This is smaller government

I don’t often lift blog entries in their entirety, but this one from Boing Boing makes a point: Ned Sublette says: as new orleans, now exclusively populated by a starving, parched skeleton crew of the abandoned  [more...]

September 2, 2005

On the Board

Right = Wrong

Disaster Sightseeing

I’m certain that President Bush thought he’d get a political boost from this disaster, just as he did on September 11, 2001. But the tide has turned, and people are angry with him and the Federal government  [more...]

September 2, 2005
Right = Wrong

Just a little blip on his radar

Now, we all know that George W. Bush is a spectacularly uninformed person — he doesn’t read the papers or watch the news, he only seems to know what he is told. So, it’s hardly surprising that, as  [more...]

September 1, 2005
General Annoyances

The language formerly know as English

You’d think that Motorola, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of communications equipment, could afford a proofreader. Here’s their invitation to a big event next week, assumed to be the launch  [more...]

September 1, 2005
Right = Wrong

Juxtaposition

[via BoingBoing] President Bush plays a guitar presented to him by Country Singer Mark Wills, right, backstage following his visit to Naval Base Coronado, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bush visited the base to deliver remarks  [more...]

September 1, 2005
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

America’s disaster

What’s most shocking to me — although I shouldn’t be surprised — is that a major U.S. region became a third-world disaster area overnight. I don’t think that we have had a situation like  [more...]

September 1, 2005