There is a container of pretzel rods in the office kitchen. I eat a lot of the pretzels. When a container is empty, someone replaces it with a full one. There is also a water cooler in the office kitchen. I drink a lot of the water (on account of my taste for the pretzels). [...]
Since the Cleveland Browns rejoined the NFL in 1999 (after a three-season interruption caused by the original team’s move to Baltimore), the Pittsburgh Steelers have beaten them in 11 of 14 regular-season games and a 2002 playoff contest. Last season’s 41-0 Christmas Eve rout was particularly enjoyable. Among the highlights of the game was James [...]
How about this fucking guy. A week after Democrats picked up at least 29 seats in the House of Representatives and six in the Senate, James Carville and his big mouth have decided that the guy who oversaw the effort did a bad job. Said Carville, of Dean: “I would describe his leadership as Rumsfeldian [...]
While waiting for an oil change at the Jiffy Lube this evening, I picked up last week’s issue of TIME to find a debate between Richard Dawkins, who “occupies the Charles Simonyi professorship for the public understanding of science at Oxford University,” and Francis Collins, “a forthright Christian who converted from atheism at age 27 [...]
In case you were wondering… I justify my continued employment with demonstrations of super-human ingenuity and acquiescence to sub-optimal working conditions. Sometimes both. Above: a table I fashioned from four folding chairs, six boxes of political literature, two laptop-computer bags, and two pieces of spare wood (18″x6′).