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Month: January 2005

  • Johnny Carson in Blackface

    Haven’t been able to get the download to work yet – I’m guessing the server is swamped. I don’t have any reason to think these clips reveal something dark about Carson himself, but they do reveal a lot about the sort of race-oriented humor that was acceptable on television even in the late 1970s. The […]

  • ORD to SFO

    Very excited. I’m attending Andrea’s coaching event. It’s in San Mateo so I’m flying to San Francisco on Ron’s buddy passes on Thursday night – he’s coming in to San Fran on Saturday – I’m trying to get him to come with me Thurs night – he can jump on the CalTrain and go downtown […]

  • Five Quick New Rules

    Before I forget… 1. Gay male bloggers can no longer bitch about the people at the gym. They’re pigs who have no regard for sanitary conditions and women should stick to yoga in the privacy of their own homes: we’ve gotten your points and they’re (un)duly noted. If it’s that bad, find a new gym […]

  • China Finances 1/3 of US Deficit

    Despite a good start to the year, when the private sector was a large net purchaser of dollar assets, central banks came to the rescue again. The People’s Bank of China has let it be known that China increased dollar reserves by $207bn (€159bn) in 2004, financing nearly a third of the US current account […]

  • 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2004

    1. Kenneth Blackwell Crimes: The greasy, rancid piece of crap who delivered Ohio for Bush by any means necessary, and then bragged about it in a recent fundraising letter. A black man who has no reservations about screwing over his own people in his lust for power and money. Blackwell is the kind of soulless […]

  • Tsunami-making Earthquake Shortened Earth's Day

    NASA scientists studying the Indonesian earthquake of Dec. 26, 2004, have calculated that it slightly changed our planet’s shape, shaved almost 3 microseconds from the length of the day, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters. According to their latest calculations, the earthquake shifted Earth’s “mean North Pole” by about 2.5 centimeters (1 inch) in […]

  • Never Met a Bill He Didn't Like

    (except for Clinton) As Bush enters his second term, keep in mind that out of the 876 legislative bills that have come across his desk, all 876 of them were signed into law. In addition, he’s written 173 of his own laws in the form of executive orders. Of course, when it comes to U.N. […]

  • Secret Pentagon Ops Team Reports Directly to Rumsfeld

    Sorry to burst your Monday morning, Carson’s dead, we’re all a family warm-fuzzy: The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency since 2002 has run an intelligence-gathering and support unit that has authority to operate clandestinely anywhere in the world where it is ordered to go in support of anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism missions, a senior defense official said […]

  • Vietnamese and Yuppies Clash on Argyle Street

    At the café right now. Ron’s in Kansas City. It snowed some today but everything has been plowed and shoveled for right now. Kitty is crazy today – lots of biting. I think the heavier Zoloft dose might be making me sleep alot. I got up at 10, had breakfast, went to the grocery, had […]

  • Creative America and Tom Tresser

    Jesus Christ it snowed. And snowed. And snowed. I got up this morning to go to a seminar and thought – oh hell – it’s gonna be ugly outside. But then I thought The people at the seminar are gonna be the real die-hards if they had to trudge through snow to get there. I […]