Leaving Las Vegas has always made me want to drink.

I’m in the Executive Lounge on the 25th floor of the Hilton in downtown Austin. How did I get here? Not as groundbreaking as the Talking Heads song, that’s for sure. My old college friend — who is oh-so-attractive in a variety of ways — gave me access. She said to “just act like you’re […]

Three years is a long time to be out of the game. It’s a long time to only really worry about what one person thinks of you — or to actually care what that person thinks.
Three years. It makes it difficult to rediscover that internal self-sufficiency that allows you to survive — mentally and emotionally […]

Two videos everyone should see:
The first is Bill Moyers’ interview with The Yes Men, a group that gives the most absurd presentations at official functions — and get taken seriously — proving the gullibility and out-right stupidity of major government and industry leaders.
The second is a YouTube video from the Texas College Democrats about Senator […]

Enough said. Bye, bye, W. Thomas Smith, Jr.

So, W. Thomas Smith, Jr., who criticized me for a post I made earlier this year by declaring his holier-than-thou reporting and fact-checking methods, seems to have run into quite a bit of trouble himself over his “reporting” in the Middle East.
The story is all over the Web, but the Columbia Journalism Review blog has […]

I like this comment made in a blog post about the recently released National Intelligence Estimate deflating the Bush administration’s rhetoric advocating bombing Iran:
It reminds me of that quote from Kurt von Hammerstein:
I divide officers into four classes — the clever, the lazy, the stupid and the industrious. Each officer possesses at least two of […]

Overheard at Halcyon:
An older guy wooing a drunken younger woman:
“Listen to this. I wrote it down. It’s a pick-up line my mom heard in college. A guy came up to her and said, ‘Some girls say I’m hung like a horse.’ Now, remember, this is the 1950s. You know what she said? ‘So are jackasses.’”