I was recently talking to my brother in law and his wife (both of whom are doctors) about the extreme unauthenticity of doctor shows like ER. Real doctor lives are much blander, more irritating, and less replete with beautiful people gazing wistfully/angrily/lovingly into one another’s eyes as they remove spleens and pry ribcages apart. I’ve [...]
IMDB has a list of the 100 worst movies of all time, as rated by visitors to the site. Some observations: There are four “Police Academy” films in the list. There should be a lot more. “Plan 9 From Outer Space” only ranks as the 77th worst movie. This may be good news for fans [...]
I have recently been reacquainting myself with Karim’s art pages over at karimspot. Some really excellent, eclectic stuff there, very much worth a look. One of my favorites is this one: a spare drawing of an unravelling man, what remains of his features splayed out and disassociated and connected only by a thin, tortuous line. [...]
The silver-tongued and multi-talented Clay Sails has just released his first album, and it’s really, really good. Go to The Music of Clay Sails for mp3 versions of all the songs, along with liner notes, lyrics, general musings, biographical information, and more. On a somewhat unrelated note, I would like to say that I think [...]
The only dispiriting thing about the undeniably uplifting capture of Saddam Hussein is how it’s managed to get the Democrats sniping at one another, once again, and most particularly at Howard Dean. Many of the primary candidates began to use the news as a Dean-bashing cudgel almost as soon as it arrived. Lieberman, predictably, was [...]
If there was a filing cabinet, somewhere in the white house basement, stocked with documents describing all of the ridiculousness perpetrated by the Bush administration in its three-year blitzkrieg against good policy and good sense, would you file its decision to forbid France, Germany, and Russia’s participation in bids for Iraqi reconstruction under “B”, for [...]
I dropped my car at the dealer today for some standard maintenance. They called me a couple of hours later and told me that, in addition to my normal service, they thought that I needed to clean off all the carbon that’s building up on my engine, because bad things might happen if I don’t. [...]
Kristof has written an op-ed rehashing the old argument that nominating Howard Dean will essentially guarantee a Bush victory in the general election — despite the fact that Dean is smart, articulate, principled, and has a solid record of centrist, practical governance during his time in Vermont. But these qualities, laudable as they may be, [...]
Driving down the GW Parkway today, we passed the CIA headquarters, and my Mom pointed out the sign at the entrance: “The George Bush Center for Intelligence”. So that’s where he keeps it.
I find that, sometimes, when I sit down to write, certain nuggets of prose just plop out of my mind, fully-formed and nearly perfect in their composition. These gifts are extremely few and far between, of course, tiny islands in a sea of churn, and the challenge in writing anything is building the necessary bridges [...]
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