In one of the more peculiar (and brief) interviews ever to appear in the pages of the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Lott speaks candidly on a wide range of issues. Although he doesn’t come entirely clean on the helmet issue, Lott does confirm the BTC News toxic hair spray thesis.
I ran across Rom, one […]

It occurred to me recently that I spend a good bit of my homeless hours networking.
I’ve been away from the beach for a few days now, but when I’m there, I have a pretty well-defined routine. I get up at 5 or 5:30 am, hit the Starbucks and make myself charmingly memorable to the […]

“If you take out the Indian reservation, we would have won.”
- Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, on Democrat Stephanie Herseth’s victory in the South Dakota special congressional election held Tuesday.
I noted the comment Wednesday over at Slate, and suggested maybe Davis would want to nuke the reservation […]

It seems as though everyone on the beach but me has a good singing voice. Even the guys who sound like frogs can carry a tune, and several of the guys have an encyclopedic knowledge of rock’n’roll lyrics, which is how six of them came to be sitting next to one of the fountains rendering […]

I’m not a confrontational person; I’ll go way out of my way to avoid social stressors, let alone a fight. I just realized today that this doesn’t hold as true as it did a month ago. I’ve had to consciously decide a few times whether to avoid or defuse a situation, or to let it […]

whose laugh sounds like the one in the introduction to “Wipeout.” It’s impenetrable.
I made a $20 bet in December of 2000 that George Bush* wouldn’t finish out his first term in office. I hope I win, and not just because I could really, really use the $20.
According to my site statistics, someone from a Fed […]

Various tasks have kept me away from the beach overnight several times during the past week. It’s nice to be released from the need for constant wariness but the drawbacks include a somewhat surprising discomfort associated with spending the night indoors and the work necessary to reestablish my position at the beach. Every time I […]

Alan is a hard-core alky with endless reserves of self-pity and anger, the two of which combine to embroil him in at least one injury-threatening situation each day. He weighs about 140 pounds and had open-heart surgery about six months ago, doesn’t eat enough and is, as I said, a hopeless drunk, so he doesn’t […]

I did a little bit of newsreading yesterday. Why aren’t our administration leaders in jail posing for blow job photos? The art of passing the buck advances again: just as Saddam, Uday & Qusay, Abu whomever, al-Sadr and all the dead-enders are individually responsible for our military woes, so are a small group of bad […]

Cigarettes are the currency of good will, along with 40-oz bottles of Steele Reserve and patience. Everybody has a story and they’re going to recite it regardless so one may as well listen and nod and mmm-hmmm as called for. I’ve met only one out-and-out sociopath but there are several men who can go psychotic […]