I have insomnia, and the liner from Alan Keyes Is Making Sense is having a weird, hypnotic effect on me. If you have not heard the liner, it sounds like some hopped up top-40 DJ with a slightly raspy/nasal voice (you know the kind- the ones on the parts of the dial you ignore, where …
Archives for January 2002
Ken Layne has the best
Ken Layne has the best two sentence description outlining the difference between Trekkies and those who may have seen the show once in a while: I really don’t like most of the hundred or so Star Trek teevee shows and movies. Sure, I watched the first show as a kid, but it didn’t turn into …
This is why James Lileks
This is why James Lileks is a genius, and I am just an intemperate windbag.
Just saw 30 minutes of
Just saw 30 minutes of “What Women Want.” It is the movie equivalent of Barney the Dinosaur- cute concept, but painfully awful after ten minutes of exposure.
Ann Coulter, goddesspundit, on the
Ann Coulter, goddesspundit, on the detainees at Camp X-Ray: We are at war with al Qaeda. The 158 Guantanamo detainees come from at least 25 different countries. To pretend that the Taliban is bound by a convention signed by an earlier Afghan government because the al-Qaida fighters happened to be captured in Afghanistan would be …
It is now official. I
It is now official. I have entirely too many blogs bookmarked in my browser. So many that it takes me an hour or so to get through them all. What I need now is: A psychologist to come up with a name for my new disorder -and- A webring for self-help groups to get over …
Once more just because it
Once more just because it was so good the first time around. This is the first editorial I can ever remember my father liking so much he pointed it out to me. Leonard Pitts on September 12th. Much thanks to our friend on the left, Ted Barlow, for pointing that out again, who saw it …