new rimless glasses: “So. How have you been? Because you look great! Really. I mean that!†me: “Thanks. But all the credit should go to my new special friend, Klonopin—who, in addition to being sexy as all green get out, likes to do a lot more than have me lie back and hum the theme to “The Flying Nun” while she sits there on my face watching Leno, dry and
January 23, 2006
January 23, 2006
Lovin’, Touchin’, Squeezin’…an “Other”
If gender or sexual orientation are, as some theorists hold, “socially constructed” (rather than genetically determined), than an identity politics position that affords me the opportunity to attend the Golden Globes for the express purpose of publicly fondling the breasts of Scarlett Johansson—without fear of professional (or even cultural) reprisal—ain’t such a bad deal. Provided, of course, that I don’t have to, y’now, get with any men in order to
January 23, 2006
Cold Steele
A couple of folks have passed along this WSJ article from Hoover Institute Scholar Shelby Steele, which hits on quite a few of the topics I discuss here. From “Hillary’s Plantation”: Of course Hillary Clinton’s recent claim that Republicans run the House of Representatives like a “plantation” was old-fashioned political and racial pandering. After all, she uttered this remark at what certainly would have been a prime venue for her
January 23, 2006
Kerry to vote against Alito before voting for him and then against him. Because of Vietnam (UPDATED and UPDATED AGAIN)
From the Boston Globe: Sen. John Kerry said Sunday he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he fears Alito would take the country “backwards.” Kerry, the failed Democratic nominee for president in 2004, also voted against now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. But Alito, Kerry said Sunday, goes even farther than Roberts in undermining established legal precedents. A flash point during Alito’s confirmation hearings
January 23, 2006
The Umpire Strikes Back (UPDATED)
I am tired of having this same NSA conversation—until we know all the facts (and because of what’s left of the classified nature of the program, we’re not likely ever to know all of them), we simply repeatedly rehearse argument for hypotheticals based on scenarios that don’t, to our knowledge, match any of the facts to which those involved in administering of overseeing the program has ever admitted. In fact,
January 23, 2006
A moment of strange, almost burning lucidity—as precipitated by a near-perfect combination of Klonopin, Ecco Domani Chianti, and the first ever episode I’ve seen of “Carnivale”
Even though I’ve long felt myself agnostic, I’m pretty sure the Devil does exist. Only. instead of having horns or carrying a trident or hobbling around like some bowlegged dock whore on a pair of ungraceful goat legs, he’s actually more of a temporal phenomenon—a moment that hides in plain sight between other moments while taking on some completely pedestrian form. Like for instance, the refrigerator you’re almost certain held
January 23, 2006
The “I have proof that George Bush is trying to turn America into a Theocracy post” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
The beer I just bought for the Panthers / Seahawks game? 3.2% alcohol. What the fuck is that all about, Jesus?*