Me
What a month…
Yesterday was the first day in the month of May on which I was neither sick nor at work. Do I need to tell you how good it felt?
Steve Casburn
Music
In-store music just keeps getting cooler
I was picking up dinner this evening, and what was playing over the PA? "Anytime" by Neil Finn. Yes. "Anytime" by Neil Finn. At a fast food place. And not one of those cool Portland joints, either. When did mainstream stores start playing album cuts from
Intellect
Undermining your case
In a recent post, Ross Douthat at The American Scene asks his readers to accept (without evidence) his characterization of the new book by Ramesh Ponnuru as smart and worthy of serious debate. Douthat begins his post with a series of questionable presumptions about people who disagree with him. He
Politics
Lame Dub
From an analysis by cbsnews.com: none (Link courtesy of Political Wire.)
Me
Cottonmouth Steve
I took NyQuil to go to sleep Tuesday night and DayQuil to go to work Wednesday morning. Having then sensibly given up the idea of returning to work again this week, I weaned myself off the 'Quil over the course of four hours last night. I thought I knew
Me
Laid up again
A second weekend in a row lost to illness. The toughest thing about having the flu is the dreams. If you spend enough time asleep, your mind runs out of things to dream about. Instead of a dream like a film, you get a dream like the thwap-thwap-thwap
LIS
Staying consistent
If a library were going to stock this book, wouldn't it be wrong somehow to charge an overdue fee on someone who returned it late?
Me
Salmon Street Green
View of my backyard and houses on Salmon Street (taken from my bedroom window) Home sick today, bundled up and working on my PCC homework. At least I have a nice view from my desk.
Politics
Collegiate in-breeding
Forty-six years before John Negroponte forced Porter Goss out as DCI, the two were fraternity brothers at Yale.
Politics
Voting for sheriff
Jack Bogdanski and the Willamette Week are both supporting the write-in of Paul Van Orden for county sheriff in this month's election. I might have written in Van Orden if I had heard about the effort before I mailed in my ballot. If I were to have
Me
The march of time
Five years ago, my beard started to go gray (if I were to grow it back, it would be half red and half gray — very Buckeye). About 18 months ago, my eyebrows started to go gray. Today I found a gray hair on my right temple. I'm much
Media
Stephen Colbert vs. the White House correspondents
I enjoy Stephen Colbert's work, but I was ambivalent about his appearance this weekend at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. On the one hand, Noam Scheiber is right to note that much of Colbert's talk was repeated from old Colbert Report episodes and that much