January 4, 2005
practical relativism
Well, it turns out uber-terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi maybe wasn’t captured after all—but on the plus side, I did manage to brave a minor Colorado snowstorm this morning to pick up my copy of Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle. So it appears we have what the bookies call a push.
Thirty-third in a series of real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this, Andaman and Nicobar archipelago tribesmen will have reloaded their bows and slingshots and flung another volley of sharpened tree branches and rocks at the Indian coastguard helicopters bringing food and water aid to the remote island cluster. Meanwhile, half a world away, Michael Moore—in what he calls his “homage” to the UN relief efforts—sets up an army surplus tent in his
Talking back to imperative verbs, 1
No, you run. Me, I’m going to stay right here and finish my french fries like a man.