Archives for February 2003

[Untitled #469]

72 words, no comments February 5, 2003 2:10pm

From French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin's reaction to Colin Powell's presentation at the UN: "Given the choice between military intervention ...

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302 words, 1 comment February 13, 2003 3:59pm

The past few weeks have not been kind to me. In addition to fending off one (or possibly two) colds and indelicately edging ever closer to ages ...

fleischer v. thomas

525 words, no comments February 13, 2003 4:59pm

In lieu of today's regularly scheduled bleating, I instead present you with slightly warmed-over fun from a now three-week-old White House press ...

[Untitled #470]

143 words, no comments February 17, 2003 5:44pm

You know, the first thing that I think when I see the business name Axscents for Home is "ack!" My brain freaks out, unaccustomed as it is to seeing ...

[Untitled #471]

79 words, no comments February 17, 2003 6:03pm

I love the Brits. They can never have enough surveillance cameras. Whether they're keeping track of drivers who need to pay the new congestion ...

3 short pantomimes about labor struggle to be performed outside a large ground-level office window inside of which a meeting is taking place

765 words, no comments February 18, 2003 2:43am

1. In Which Management Does Not Take into Account the Welfare of the Workers Worker A pantomimes some form of manual labor. Perhaps the symbolism ...

a critical rebuttal

244 words, no comments February 18, 2003 3:43am

Todd Stadler's recent troika of plays, "3 Short Pantomimes about Labor Struggle to be Performed Outside a Large Ground-Level Office Window Inside ...

i am a fame whore

1900 words, 14 comments February 19, 2003 2:41am

So they're going to put me on the TV. Specifically, the MTV. For those of you keeping count (hi, Mom!), this will sort of be the second time ...

spammers gone wild

826 words, no comments February 21, 2003 6:17am

As they say, three things in life are certain: death, taxes, (although strangely enough, not taxes on death), and never-ending spam in your inbox. ...

balancing the checkbook

203 words, 3 comments February 21, 2003 7:17am

A quick lesson on how checks and balances work in our government: The problem is that there are some unelected agencies that try to run roughshod ...

[Untitled #472]

113 words, no comments February 22, 2003 3:33am

Well, it looks like it's time to live in fear again, admonitions to the contrary notwithstanding (telling me to "be ready" for nuclear attacks somehow ...

[Untitled #473]

54 words, no comments February 22, 2003 3:57am

I never read interviews with authors. That said, last Sunday's Washington Post has the funniest author interview I've ever read. (from I woke up in ...

[Untitled #474]

69 words, no comments February 22, 2003 4:23am

You know, if this whole war with Iraq doesn't result in some seriously liberated Iraqis somewhere down the line, I'll have to ... to, well ... um, ...

un-relevant, a heavy-handed allegory

645 words, no comments February 27, 2003 12:10am

There's a major problem with speeding in Portland. You see people doing it every day, both on highways and surface streets. What's baffling ...

un-relevant, a more sober analysis

547 words, no comments February 27, 2003 1:10am

So our comandeer-in chief has decided that the UN could become irrelevant. And, according to the Washington Post, Bush has already decided to ...

un-programming

122 words, no comments February 27, 2003 3:10am

So according to that Washington Post article and pretty much everybody else with a brain, Bush already has his mind made up on war with Iraq. ...

double plus un-bad

136 words, 1 comment February 27, 2003 6:10am

You know, there's one nice thing that can be seen in this whole UN/Iraq debacle. The rotating nature of the non-veto countries in the Security ...

[Untitled #475]

97 words, no comments February 27, 2003 11:04pm

This New York Times article (yes, registration is required) on software that screenwriters use to help them write scripts is interesting, if only for ...

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