The Delightful Decadence of Jeopardy

Sometimes, I watch Jeopardy!
I can’t stand Wheel of Fortune, it’s just hangman with a Playskool roulette wheel. As a little kid it was appealing because spinning the wheel just looked too cool and my lack of a vocabulary made the difficulty seem legit. But it’s not cool, it’s the Atlantic City to Jeopardy’s [...]

How Government Works

Cocktail party at the White House!  Now, this is the sort of cigar-chomping, scotch-swilling, back-room deal-wheeling most commonly associated with graft and decadence. If a Republican president was doing it, (or any old rich white man), a self-righteous progressive could easily be appalled at the mere appearance of the thing.  But it’s Barack, so brokering [...]

Too Meta for Words

This is one of those things that seems inevitable in retrospect.

Old Man Refuses Pills, and Other News

–John McCain was recently seen wandering around his Senate office in a bathrobe, mumbling his support for Republicans complaining about the stimulus package.  His beef is that the package should be composed mostly of tax cuts (Obama pre-emptively added tax cuts to the package to appeal to the GOP; they want more).  Minority Leader Boner’s [...]

LOST: “Because You Left” & “The Lie”

Right. So, off the island, it’s Back to the Future, but on the island it’s Back to the Future part II, specifically the part where they time-travel back into the first movie.  Oh, and Daniel Faraday is secretly Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap.  And this show is still great.
The first hour was top shelf, stocked [...]

The Year of Living Dangerously

Today being the first day of the rest of our lives and all, I would be remiss not to challenge myself with a new experience or jump out of an airplane or whatever.  In lieu of death-defying adventures, I am in an office all day, watching the You Suck at Photoshop series while photoshopping, because [...]

Tough Decisions Based on Incomplete Evidence

This blog has exclusively acquired the text of the letter George W. Bush left for Barack H. Obama in the desk of the Oval Office.
“Dear Barack,
I put my balls on something in this office. I’m not going to tell you what. Good luck!
Yours truly, George”

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Obama Shrugged

Turns out the unnervingly large amount of money the government will be spending in 2009 contains an unnervingly small amount of money for railroads.
For a variety of reasons, at least one of them genuinely relevant, this is terrible news. Creating a high-speed rail infrastructure would spur investment and renewal in the communities along the lines. [...]

Things That Make Me Miss New York II

This photo at Sully’s.  And, obviously, the plane landing on the Hudson river.