I recently contributed some money to Maryland Public Television, which broadcasts The News Hour with Jim Lehrer at 6:00, every weekday. I love the News Hour, I love their dull sets, their dry, monotonous, unchanging delivery, their lack of flash and bang and pizzaz, I love the amount of time they lavish on every story [...]
So it emerges that the Justice Department had been using many of the intrusive, privacy-thwarting provisions of the USA Patriot Act to pursue run-of-the-mill, non-terrorist criminals. This despite the fact that the Act was promoted, and has been defended, exclusively as a bulwark against the terrorist evildoers who wish to destroy our country: The government [...]
Technology has changed our lives in many wonderful, wonderful ways. There’s the automobile, for example, which has enabled us to drop large housing subdivisions on pristine forests without having to worry about how its human residents will traverse the many miles that now separate them from their jobs. There are cell phones, which not only [...]
I just belched, very loudly. Normally, this would not be a big deal, but I am unfortunately at work, in cubeland, sitting in a 10 by 10 three-sided roofless cloth enclosure in close proximity to many people who must have heard my recent indelicacy, and, if they did not hear it, almost surely felt the [...]
Holy ululating monkey spunk, Batman! Dick Cheney gave an interview to Meet The Press’s Tim Russert yesterday in which he staunchly defended everything the administration said and did to get us into the Iraqi war. The half-baked uranium charges, the spurious accusations of a link with Al-Quiada, the ludicrously underplanned occupation, the spiraling costs: it’s [...]
Men have several unwritten rules of conduct with respect to their behavior in shared lavatory situations. There are certain things that one must do, and must not do, when one meets one’s peers in a restroom, and most of us understand what those things are. However, there are certain individuals who, due to errors in [...]
Josh Marshall over at Talking Points Memo has had some extremely sharp words for the Bush administration lately, and for Bush himself. This, for example, on the world’s prevailing attitude towards the US: Fred Kaplan has an excellent piece in Slate this week about the missed opportunity of September 12th. “By the summer of 2003,” [...]
Today is my birthday. I’m thirty-three years old. This means that I’ve managed to not die for almost a third of a century, which is not too shabby, if you ask me. I’ve survived typhoid, a civil war, high school, adolescence, a nasty car crash, an extended bout with anemia, a beagle, and the continuous [...]
Robert Cringely has a great column this week about the cunning malefactors in today’s corporate world who have learned to skirt the bounds of legality in their business dealings, doing bad things and getting away with them by hovering so close to the border of right that it’s hard to tell when they stray into [...]
Dear Weather God, We couldn’t help but notice that you’ve spent the better part of the last six months raining on us, and hurling lightning at our neighborhoods, and producing great peals of thunder to frighten our children and upset our dogs. That you have blackened the sky with clouds more often than you haven’t, [...]
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