In less happy times- notably, the day after the 2004 election, I was fond of quoting Greil Marcus at some length:

In Berkeley in the mid-1960s, I used to marvel at the way friends made the world anew each day by cartwheeling down the street, moment to moment exchanging Trotskyism for anarchism for Stalinism for the occult for drugs for religion ( Read more... )

I have never before actually uttered the phrase "In the immortal words of Gerald Ford".

Ladies and gentlemen, in the immortal words of Gerald Ford:

"Our long national nightmare is over."

So I'm sitting here idly watching television, and PBS is showing Ken Burns' latest series: The War.

I've not seen any of it yet, so I figure what the heck. If nothing else, the sonorous narration of another Burns series is bound to help me get some sleep.

But then, just as it was about to start, I sat up and took notice, for in its now typical ( Read more... )

If you live on Birchman Avenue between Sanguinet and Eldridge Streets in Fort Worth, Texas, and you own a pit bull named Bear:
Thank you so much for encouraging your dog to chase me as I rode my Y-foil past your house this afternoon. I haven't done enough speed work lately; three blocks going all-out in 53/14 sprinting away from your snarling animal ( Read more... )

Then the first plane hits the towers. Then the second, followed in turn by the dreadful collapse. Within a very short time you make the joyful discovery that you are not a misanthrope after all. Phoenix-like, your heart is reborn from the ashes, bouyed in part by the shameful sensation of lightness that comes from knowing they were somebody else's ( Read more... )

Keith Olbermann is my new hero. Posted without comment:

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.

We end the countdown where we began, our #1 story.with a special comment on Mr. Rumsfeld’s remarkable speech to the American Legion yesterday ( Read more... )

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This image is just too disturbing to pass up. Please, someone provide a caption.


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I guess there had to come a time when I would find something worthy of actually posting, and this sentence from google is it:

Your search - "developers live in fantasyland" - did not match any documents.

Never saw that one coming.