Anything to get myself to write.

I have a new favorite tool:
Write or Die.
You select a word goal and a time goal and a level of intimidation, and then you type away into a text box, and that’s the simple beauty of it: the site works by prodding you when you stop writing for more than a few seconds. [...]

Why can’t the English…

…manufacture or import screw-top bottles of wine that can be opened without the use of steel cutters, pliers, welders, and obscenities? Because it seems to me that a lot of other countries have got this down to a science.
At least my time in England is drawing to a close, and very soon I’ll be [...]

My kind of democrat.

2008: The year I learned to stop blindly following and, instead, to think for myself.
Couldn’t have done it without you, Senator Wellstone. You are missed.