Month: September 2004

  • Opium Made Easy

    From ‘Opium Made Easy’ in Harper’s: The DEA was indeed trying to implement a quiet crackdown without calling attention to the fact that they are commonly available and easily converted into a narcotic. Why is it illegal to plant a seed, a gift from nature, when your only intention is to grow it for its […]

  • The DaVinci Code

    Ron started reading The DaVinci Code this week. I’ve never seen him obsessed over a book before. He read it for 15 hours solid on Monday – until 3 AM yesterday morning. He can’t stop talking about it and I keep smacking him around when he reveals a plot point. I’m going to start reading […]

  • Sex in the City

    I have to confess. I don’t ‘get’ Sex in the City and I don’t think I ever will. I don’t understand what is so engaging about four girls entertaining themselves with conspicuous shopping, drinking and screwing. I watched a few episodes now that it’s syndicated on cable. I think part of it is attached to […]

  • UK Gallery Bans Air Kissing

    Thank God, someone is putting an end to all this goddamned air kissing. I think it’s so faux-nouveau when people air kiss me. Even worse is when someone is presumptuous and kisses you on the lips. Acquaintances cannot kiss me on the lips. Friends and family and of course Ron, fine. That was the one […]

  • Season Two Twin Peaks on DVD Possibly in 2005

    I was surfing online to see what efforts there were to get season two of Twin Peaks on DVD in the U.S. I had to get the pilot imported from Japan and then got the first season on DVD a short time after. Dugpa, a David Lynch fansite says that the rights for the show […]

  • The Housing Bubble

    Read a great article in Fortune on real estate speculating that sooner than later – the whole damned thing is going to collapse and cause a lot of financial misery for a lot of people.

  • McDonald's Libel Suit

    Hopefully you’ve read Fast Food Nation which will tell you what’s really in those Big Macs. And you know about the anti-McD’s protesters in London that handed out leaflets and got themselves into a libel lawsuit ending in many of the protester’s points being proven in a court of law and McDonald’s being smeared in […]

  • Turning the Tables

    I know, I know – all but one of my first few posts on the new blog are political. I’ll get to the personal stuff soon – I’m sifting through all my newsfeeds! Juan Cole cooks up some statistics comparing damage and death in Iraq to proportional mayhem here in the United States. (via Lying […]

  • U.S. Soldier Reported Beat Up at Concert

    Look at how this article is framed. Headline: Decorated Soldier Reportedly Attacked At Concert What do you picture? I see a soldier with the actual Purple Heart being beaten up. He was wearing an Iraqi Freedom shirt. Sub-title: Barton Cannot Return To Iraq Due To Injuries So I thought – holy shit – he must […]

  • Jon Stewart versus Bill O'Reilly

    Transcript of Jon Stewart on The O’Reilly Factor: (via Mofi via Wonkette) O’REILLY: You actually have an influence on this presidential election. That is scary. STEWART: If that were so, that would be quite frightening. O’REILLY: But it is. It’s true. I mean, you’ve got stoned slackers watching your dopey show every night, OK, and […]