Category: long story short

  • What has Iraq got that North Korea hasn’t?

    In his op ed today, A War for Oil?, Tom Friedman mentions the president’s recent soundbite: Mr. Bush’s recent attempt to hype the Iraqi threat by saying that an Iraqi attack on America — which is most unlikely — “would cripple our economy” was embarrassing. It made the president look as if he was groping…

  • Stormy Monday

    I stood out back in the shed listening to the wind pick up and drive the light rain against the walls and fences and trellises. Rose bushes lash the windows even now. The cat and I agreed to go back inside. Working on a longish blog entry about losing my wallet in New York and…

  • Christmas on Park Avenue

  • Homeland security

    So the day after we arrived here in New York we decided to see a matinee of the new Lord of the Rings movie down on 86th street and 3rd. We didn’t pay cash for tickets. I called the the number listed for the theatre in the newspaper ad, which was really just the new…

  • Tip of the iceberg

    I’ve been wondering when the Lott flap would lead to a more comprehensive investigation of how the old Dixiecrat movement became the Goldwater/Nixon “southern strategy.” To quote Lyndon Johnson when he signed the 1964 Voting Rights Act, “I think we’ve just delivered the south to the Republicans for a long time to come.” The Republicans…

  • Nothing like a sinus headache

    Got my copy of Jaguar today, installed it no problem, so now I can use the latest version of Kung-Log for posting to MT (and it now picks up what tune you’re playing in iTunes, like the iJournal client for LiveJournal does, thanks to a request from shacker—woo hoo!—though it appears I have to insert…