English is the best language on earth. And I don’t say that lightly. I’ve come to this conclusion after some pretty exhaustive research into all of the other 12 or 13 languages on the planet. I picked up the Basque edition of The Little Prince the other day, for example, and found it quite dull, [...]
We went down to the Howard Dean rally in Virginia today. It’s the first stop in his Sleepless Summer Tour, an ambitious, four-day, eight-city barnstorm across the country. Dean is suddenly big-time: he has money now, and name recognition, and he’s apparently determined to make it count. The rally was held at Cherry Hill park, [...]
It’s coming. You can smell it: the scent of barbecue drifting across the parking lots of shuttered stadiums; the stink of sweat and manliness billowing out of locker rooms in a maldiferous fog; the sizzling, milling odor of violence rising off of the gridirons. Football season is approaching, my friends, and not a moment too [...]
Over the years, I’ve made many attempts to find myself. I’ve tried the standard monotheistic religions, self-help books, week-long meanders down the Appalachian trail, obsessive navel gazing, Buddhism, Taoism, Maoism, Jackiechanism, Waynism, Garthism, Neoism (which involves the wearing of latex and the ritual repetition of the word “Whoa”), Scientology (“Your application has been rejected due [...]
My my my. It seems that Fox News, inveterate spewer of Republican propaganda and unabashed proponent of all things conservative, trademarked the phrase “Fair & Balanced” back in 1995. Yeah. And that’s not even the punchline. They’re currently suing Al Franken for using it in the title of his latest book, Lies and the Lying [...]
With the possible exception of late night comedians and newspaper headline punsters, the California recall circus is pretty much bad for everyone: bad for Democrats, bad for Republicans, bad for the state, bad for the country. California’s strange recall process was originally instituted by turn-of the-century reformers as a bulwark against the re-emergence of the [...]
I’m reading A Walk in the Woods, by Bill Bryson, and I can’t stop: it sucked me in from the first sentence, and it won’t let go. One of the blurbs on the back of the book describes Bryson as a synthesis of Garrison Keillor, Michael Kinsley, and Dave Barry, and that sound about right [...]
Ok, it looks like the Evil Brain behind the Total Information Awareness act has finally found a way to get around the will of Congress. TIA is one of the many twisted, fearmongering initiatives born in the wake of 9/11, and possibly the scariest: a federal plan to compile a huge database of information on [...]
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