The Schrug

Fortunately, I was able to bingo anyway:

In his confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John Roberts famously remarked that nobody ever went to a ballgame to see an umpire. It was and still is a horrible analogy – being a Supreme Court Justice is NOTHING LIKE being an umpire – but I could not help recalling those words today. What people really don’t [...]

Last weekend an assortment of relatives spontaneously created a new tongue twister. Try it with your friends: She seeks chic cheap sheep cheese. Now try some variations, adding words like Sikh, cheek, sheik, seize, sees, seep, and so on. The kids will love it!

Pandora rules. But recently it’s been flipping out on me. I’d say about 20% of the songs I’m listening to don’t play all the way through. Pandora either jumps to a new song or stays quiet until I give it a virtual kick in the pants. It’s a known issue, but one that is rather [...]

Question 1: What must this feel like? Question 2: What, Bruce, you don’t have your own songs memorized? For the story behind the photo, see the Barack Obama blog.

Can you imagine conducting a job interview with an applicant where you would ask questions that took about 45 seconds to phrase and then you wouldn’t be allowed to speak again until the applicant had spoken for two minutes straight? Ludicrous, right? But that’s what we’re going to be subjected to again this fall. Whatever [...]

And set your DVRs. Barack Obama on The O’Reilly Factor. Thursday at 8 pm EDT. This should be good.

Boy, I thought I was so clever to note that Sarah Palin and Tina Fey look alike. But a Google search for +”tina fey” +”sarah palin” already yields 1,160 hits. And that’s within an hour or two of her selection as McCain’s running mate. The resemblance, from certain angles, is rather striking: I sure do [...]

Last week, a lawsuit. This morning, a death sentence? The horror … the horror ….