I'm not usually one to give a shit about celebrities, but this, uh, "piece" from the NY Times struck me as particularly bizarre:When I was asked to write for this blog I was honored, but I remember thinking two things: how difficult it would be to find five subjects to write about, and how I refused to write about my famous clientele, whom I make ( Read more... )

Today is Martin Luther King Day, a day where students across the United States get out of school, and politicians take pictures with black people. Unfortunately for the politicians, however, it seems that the black people have caught on.


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In Chicago, prostitutes are more likely to fuck a cop for protection than to get arrested by one. I'm waiting for the statistic that says that police are more likely to keep their confiscated drugs than to log them.

Last year, in my IR class, the whole class mocked me (some girl likened me to a 9/11 conspiracy theorist, and the TA said something disparaging about the fact that I was just a naïve undergrad) when I tried to suggest that most of the terrorist attacks in Russia supposedly perpetrated by Chechen terrorists were actually false flag operations, ( Read more... )

At first I thought Facebook applications would be cool, but then I was disappointed and annoyed by zombies. Then, I discovered Scrabulous. It's sort of like Scrabble-by-e-mail, but by Facebook instead. It's nice because Scrabble can be frustrating to play in person because there's a lot of waiting, and this way you can take your time. If you ( Read more... )

If Lou Dobbs is elected president, I will move to Mexico.

Two days ago or something I was sitting on a bench next to this tied up bike and its owner came to claim it (or, later as I learned, make sure I wasn't trying to steal it). He looked kind of like a bum, and he came in the direction of the forest where some homeless (or are they?) people live. But anyway, turns out he was just a janitor on the ( Read more... )

I'm currently engaged in combat of epic proportions with the Office of Student Conduct over some illicit wireless router usage, the consequence being that I am without internet access. That is, until the end of the semester, when the ever-logical bureaucratic rules force everything back to its natural state of being ( Read more... )

Romanian Host Beats Up Guests

Silly things have been happening lately. I'm involved in a protracted and nasty Cold War-turned-hot battle with the Georgetown computer people. This past weekend, I went home to see my mom (who didn't tell me she was coming till after I had gotten back to Washington last weekend). I stayed at Jess', and on Saturday decided that I really didn't ( Read more... )