A tsunami killed over a hundred thousand people in Asia last week. Everything reeks of that tragedy, everything is filtered through it, and everything seems completely trivial in comparison. What is there to say? I have trouble even thinking about that many lost and ruined lives. Some reporter in Sri Lanka interviewed a guy he [...]
I’ve often heard it lamented that our present political age is so ridden with nastiness and ill-will, so marred by backbiting and vitriol, that it’s impossible to hold public office without having everything about you — from your character, to your upbringing, to your sex life — examined, reviled, impugned, and just generally spat upon. [...]
One of the very few downsides to being married is having to attend your spouse’s office Christmas party at the end of every year. We went to my wife’s last night. It was a pretty nice fete: a DJ, mounds of food, raffles, prizes, good cheer. I was miserable. There’s nothing quite like a large [...]
I love going to the movies. I love the whole process: the scanning of movie listings, the negotiations with my fellow movie-goers, the selection of theater, the standing in line, the rush for the best seat. But my favorite part of the process is, without a doubt, the eating of popcorn. There’s nothing like settling [...]
I once met a man With a head made of twine And a smile divine And a soft-spoken gait He asked me to dance In his lope-lovely voice But left me no choice As the hour was late So I stripped off my skin One strand at a time Like a burgeoning mime Like a [...]
If there’s one fact we can glean from the recent string of cabinet-level departures from the Bush white house, it’s that executive branch officials really, really like spending time with their families. Whether they’re being forced out, hinted out, hectored out, hurried out, chased out, or beaten out, it’s clear that they can all fall [...]
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