Avert thine eyes, if you are not interested in men’s urinals and the etiquette that surrounds them. It appears that some men are pre-flushers. That is, when they arrive at a urinal, they immediately haul on the handle to get a good flush going. I don’t know if they need to hear the rushing water […]
Yeah, I know. I’m the ultimate TiVo evangelist. I love TiVo. People who know me know the praises I have sung about TiVo. And yet… and yet. This past week I have come to dislike TiVo, the company. Let me be clear, lest there be any misunderstanding. Time-shifting television has changed my life, and for […]
I will confess something that is surely not a shock to anyone who knows me. I am terrible at keeping in touch. I don’t do it. I had dear friends in college, and had dear friends (well, one or two) in NYC when I was there. And yet, do I e‑mail? No. Do I call? […]
So, today is September 11th. What with all the fresh tragedy, it seems nobody is remembering past tragedy. Is it just me, or has this anniversary crept up on us? Sure, four years isn’t anything to celebrate (black humor intended), but it just seems… so sad. Not that we might be forgetting 9/11, but that […]
We almost impeached a President for having oral sex. Can’t we impeach one for deceit, incompetence, and malice? In this article from CNN, Chertoff argues that nobody predicted this kind of disaster, while Brown suggests that FEMA had planned for a category 5 storm two years ago. Time Magazine has an article on Brown’s faked […]
The devastation along the Gulf Coast is unimaginable to me. That our President grandstanded to the point of flying Air Force One within 1700 feet of the ground so he could get a “first hand view” (he’s going back in a more prosaic helicopter next week) is unimaginable to me. That he would state that […]