Exhibit 5a | Creative Disobedience

I’m wrapping up my affairs this morning to head off to Philly this afternoon for a wedding. Between the meetings I have and picking up a rental car I don’t have a lot of time to write today. Instead of today’s political rant I’ll leave you with Hunter’s response to the wingnuts crying about their [...]

Best. Parody. Trailer. Eva. For reals.

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Ever wonder how much bomb-sniffing dogs cost? Apparently a lot more than a purse-dog at your local pet store. The Department of Homeland Security has implemented a bomb-sniffing dog budget to the tune of $2.7 million. Thats for the training of 30 dogs and the 30, three-man teams to go with them. The dogs are [...]

True to form, just in time for Tom Delay’s indictment by a Texas grand jury, George Bush trumpets a warning of an upsurge in violence in Iraq. Too bad we’re not back in the technocolor halcyon days of Tom Ridge or we could get a sweet, sweet violent bump to Code Orange. Too bad this [...]

Ok, I swear to god I need to just change the title of this blog to “Walking Around New York In The Fall Rocks” because I can’t seem to think about anything else these days. Seriously, last night I went to a great improv show on the west side, which meant that I had to [...]

ID for Morons So many things in the news this morning. I could, for example, spend a few minutes talking about the court case back home in Pennyslvania over the ridiculous inclusion of intelligent design in the science program. I could tell you that the lawyers defending intelligent design, who work for a freakin’ non-profit [...]

This is something about the combination of good food, expensive cocktails and being surrounded by beautiful people that make dinner at Cafeteria one of those quintessential New York experiences. For a couple of hours you can easily enjoy the illusion that you’re part of the scene and that any moment Maggie Gyllenhaal or Chloë Sevigny [...]