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.

House Mouse

When I’m awakened in the middle of the night by cats, it usually means one thing: they’ve brought me a gift, generally a snake, a bird, or a mouse. Four nights ago, it was the latter. So, at 1am, I was up  [more...]

On the Board

A Culture of Life

I know I wasn’t going to post about the Schiavo case again, but the hypocrisy is running so thick and deep that I’d be remiss to not point it out. Let’s see what one of those so-called  [more...]

The Aha Moment

In every controversial issue, things start out somewhat normal — and then one little fact comes out and makes you suddenly suspicious. Then another, then another, until you start to realize that there’s much  [more...]

Suffer the little children

Oh, my — how come I never noticed this before it was brought to my attention by Fark? From my own neighborhood comes this extremely unfortunate logo design: This is a public service announcement from a Creative  [more...]

It’s all been done

I have often mused, in an unserious way, of having my Prius key implanted in my person so that I wouldn’t have to carry it in my pocket. Imagine just having the car open and start because it recognized the RFID  [more...]

That “liberal media” again

Eric Boehlert points out in Salon a curious thing: Recent polling data, in outlets from Fox News to the Washington Post, shows that an overwhelming majority of Americans back the position of Michael Schiavo  [more...]