My company has a serious door fetish. In order to reach my modest little desk, I have to walk through no less than seven doors. Seven. And it’s not like I’m traveling the length of seven football fields here, it’s actually quite a short trek from the front of the building to my cube. Nevertheless, [...]
Salon is running an interesting article about last weekend’s “End the Occupation” rally in D.C. The rally was organized by ANSWER, whose official position on the occupation issue is that all troops (not just US troops, all troops) should leave Iraq immediately, and the Iraqi people should be left to their own devices. That seems [...]
The new site is finally up. We here at Doodleplex Command have spent countless hours refining, honing, laboring, chiseling, sweating, typing, screaming, squealing like baby ferrets, bashing our heads through walls, cursing the god of HTML and the vile markup language he gave us, cursing all of the gods in the fractured pantheon of the [...]
My monitor at work has taken to making little popping noises at odd intervals. The screen isn’t flickering or anything, and the noises aren’t loud, so I’m not really worried that it’s about to fizzle out or explode or go black. My concern is that I’m not hearing these sounds, exactly, so much as feeling [...]
On my way into work today, I heard what is perhaps the dumbest editorial I have ever encountered in all of my years as a seasoned editorial-listener-to person. It was another one of those ludicrous attempts to lower the bar in Iraq. One of the ways in which the administration and its far-right apologists have [...]
Slate has published a rare frothing rant from Michael Kinsley, on the subject of the Bush administration’s two-year-old policy on the use of embryonic stem cells for research. It’s not a complicated point. If stem-cell research is morally questionable, the procedures used in fertility clinics are worse. You cannot logically outlaw the one and praise [...]
I just got back from a very uneventful mini-vacation in Hershey, Pennsylvania, literally right across the street from Hershey Park. Which was closed, alas. There was a time in my life where I would have contemplated ritual seppuku at the prospect of being within walking distance of a shuttered amusement park: all of that squandered [...]
Seth Stevenson from Slate is in the process of blogging his trip to Tokyo. His account is chock full of strange experiences, odd encounters, culture clash and just plain weirdness. Here’s a sample: Of course, not all my moments of social un-grace are tolerated so kindly and so smoothly dismissed. The last time I came [...]
Bill O’Reilly is a mean, obnoxious, sanctimonious prick with the debating skills of a bullhorn and the political acumen of a baboon’s ass. And so, needless to say, he’s an icon of the hardcore conservative movement, another in the long line of bullying intellectual monobrows who’d rather shout you down than argue with you. He [...]
I had a conversation with my reflection today. I don’t often talk to my reflection, but it’s sometimes unavoidable: it’s always there, lurking in mirrors or on the surface of my windshield or the face of my watch, just hanging out, waiting for me to glance over. Today’s little talk was quite different from all [...]
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