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

Sorry, woke up to a right wing mess

I don’t often shoot out so many political posts all in one sitting, but the state of things in my country this morning are frustrating and disgusting. This is an editorial in today’s Washington Post, which I  [more...]

August 15, 2005

On the Board

Right = Wrong

And the sun revolves around Crawford

This is a great quote from Howard Dean from yesterday’s Meet The Press… Science is science. There’s no factual evidence for intelligent design. There’s an enormous amount of factual evidence for  [more...]

August 15, 2005
Fun Stuff

A profitable birthday

Well, maybe it was just a tiny karmic realignment — for me, at least, because for someone else it was damnable bad luck — but while walking Diego this afternoon, I spied a piece of paper in the grass  [more...]

August 14, 2005
Right = Wrong

The administration of lowered expectations

One of the many bizarre Bush Doctrines is the masterful way they manage to get the American people to lower their expectations. For example, way back when Dubya was first running for president, most pundits agreed that  [more...]

August 14, 2005
Life... Don't talk to me about life.

In my day

At exactly this time — well, 3 hours ago on the east coast, actually — thirty-nine years ago, I was born. As my aunt Susie so kindly pointed out in a birthday card, in 1966: A new car cost $2,653 The  [more...]

August 14, 2005