And to slightly mitigate the depressing post below, here is a fun quote from Larry Flynt, who is among the throng running for Governor of California: “I might be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I’m not paralyzed from the neck up.” His platform is loonier than he is, but he would ...

My aunt C.J. died Friday. It was not unexpected, in that she’s been sick with a Physician’s Desk Reference worth of maladies on and off for years. It still sucks. C.J. was my dad’s sister. She was born a couple years after him, and a couple years before Mary Ann, my other aunt. C.J. spent ...

I will be in Boston for my aunt’s funeral for the next couple of days. Posting shall resume upon my return.

By reading Dave Letterman’s Top Ten Reasons Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Not Going To Run For Governor Of California. I can’t believe I’m going to be in California for a month’s worth of this fiasco…

I went home to D.C. earlier this week because I hadn’t been home in a year and wanted to preempt the “You haven’t been home in such a long time!” that I knew would be forthcoming from my mother within the next month or two. I had also looked at my schedule and realized the ...

I’m back from D.C., after an oh-so-entertaining time sitting on the tarmac at National for two hours, waiting for the ground hold in Chicago to be lifted. I can’t tell you how joyous that was, especially when I got to explain U.S. geography to the two ladies from Abilene, Texas, sitting next to me. I’m ...

To read things like this the night before you get on a plane to D.C….

I’m going to D.C. for the next few days, so there may not be any updates until I get back. It’s going to be weird, since this is the first time I’ve been back since my mom sold the house I grew up in, so I’m not really actually going back home. I’m going to ...

It’s a good thing Angelina Jolie is so hot, because this movie sucks.

Ah, how office politics can extend to places without an office…So I had a little bit of a scare today when I picked up my work schedule for the week after next: my name wasn’t on the schedule at all. I had told the managers I was going to quit on the 10th of August ...