There’s some very excellent music out there on the internets. Yesterday, I stumbled onto a song called Hana, which is very much unlike anything I’ve ever heard. It starts out annoying, two monotonous voices disharmonizing over a string section, but it’s just intriguing enough to keep you listening. And then, after it ends, about six [...]
When I was around thirteen, and just waking to the tragedy of male pattern baldness, I decided to make a pact with my hair. “Hair,” I said. “here’s the deal: if you promise to not fall out, I promise I’ll leave you alone, forever.” My hair gave its silent assent, and I’ve been true to [...]
The Loony Room is buried deep in the catacombs that lie beneath the White House. It sits to the right of Cheney’s Hidey Bunker, where he goes for snarl augments whenever he feels his nastiness waning, and to the left of the special guest suite where the party hides Republican luminaries who need to lie [...]
I’ve always been kind of ambivalent about Hillary Clinton. I respect her and everything she’s done, I admire her intellect and her accomplishments, and I’m frankly mystified by the paroxysms of visceral, murderous hatred she seems to inspire in others. But there’s something about her that’s always turned me off. But that was yesterday. As [...]
Juan Cole throws cold water on yesterday’s bubbly enthusiasm about the recent happenings in Lebanon: The country appears deeply divided over how much presence Syria should have in Lebanon, and on where to place the blame for the death of former PM Hariri. a recent scientific poll by Zogby International, half of Maronites and Druze [...]
An amazing picture of today’s opposition protests in Lebanon, which easily dwarfed last week’s Hezbullah demonstration: Check out the symbolism: Harriri off to the side and in the back, behind a sign that says 100% Lebanese: he’s a goad to the demonstration, its origin, but no longer its main purpose. A crane in the background, [...]
I’m supposed to be doing my taxes now, but it’s after 8:30, and after 8:30 I become officially useless. Nevertheless, every night, as that witching hours approaches, I steel myself and resolve that this time it’ll be different; this time, I will lower my head and barrel through my limitations. No: I will gore my [...]
Winter blew back into town yesterday, screaming southward on gusty gale-force winds, dropping a swirling maelstrom of snow on the morning rush hour and then freezing it solid with a sudden, 20-degree plunge into frigid. It made for some interesting views when I came out of work; patchwork skeins of ice plastered to the cars, [...]
Well, it looks like the Senate is going to pass their vile personal bankruptcy bill. Declaring bankruptcy is about to get a lot harder for the rabble; predictably, however, the aristocracy and the corporations remain untouched. I can’t think of a more perfect symbol of the current state of the Republican party: a pack of [...]
Saw this sign taped to a window at work, over a broad, and bare, windowsill: Please bring back my plant. I was just trying to give it a little sun. How sad.
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