"No matter how cynical I get, I can’t keep up.” — Lily Tomlin
Enough with cat & dog blogging. Let’s talk about me! I found a new way to enjoy hours and hours of self-referential absorbtion . . . and you can do it too, at the Face Transformer. Here’s the photo I started with, my unaltered visage: My favorite is El Greco’s Bearded Man in Kitchen: The Botticelli […]
I thought I was reasonably on top of the Scooter Libby trial story. But Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker threw me with this, in his most recent Talk of the Town commentary: What’s ultimately behind Libby’s trial is the Administration’s obsession with finding hard evidence for what it already believes. President Bush is often […]
Oh. My. God. If this music video doesn’t make you squirm, you are not of this Earth. As Teresa at Making Light describes it, “. . . from the very start it’s terrible beyond human reckoning. After that, it steadily gets worse.” This sentence alone should draw you in: “Behold the mustache on the keyboard […]
It snows in Tucson about once every two years, usually in late January or early February. So yesterday’s snow was right on schedule. Little did I know, when I took this photo from our front door, that less than an inch of snow would shut Tucson down. My God, you’d have thought it was End […]
Last night I’m driving home when a Tucson cop welds himself to my rear bumper and blinds me by shining his spotlight right into my rear view mirror. He holds the light there for several seconds, then speeds past me on the right. I’m trying to think what I’ve done wrong but coming up blank […]
. . . or does anyone else see this coming? Even I, a peacenik from way back, have to admit: we can’t leave Iraq. Ever. No matter how bad it gets. So the Iraqis turn out to be unredeemably venal and corrupt, a nation of murderers bent on ethnically cleansing themselves out of existence. So […]
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Ever since Ethiopian forces went into Somalia, and more so since this week’s US AC-130 gunship attack on what is said to have been a Somalian Al Qaeda encampment, news commentators and reporters have been talking about Black Hawk Down. As in: “US forces strike Somalia again, more than 13 years after Black Hawk Down.” When […]