I used to followed the Tour de France stage-by-stage when I was a teenage Francophile who bought cases of Perrier because “my body was a temple” (didn’t drink alcohol or soft drinks; only juice, milk, and Perrier). Well, too bad Floyd Landis didn’t stick to Perrier. For you non-Tour-de-France fans, he won the Tour with [...]

T-shirt for George W. Bush
I almost bought this t-shirt in Japan to send to “President” Bush.

Republicans are just plain shameless (I would normally say “fucking shameless” but my mother has asked me to refrain from such language). How hard is it to raise the federal minimum wage from pitiful ($5.15/hour) to just bad ($7.25)? Well, appararently impossible if it’s viewed that rich people wouldn’t benefit from it. In the wee [...]

What better time to see the Al Gore global warming film than in the midst of a freakish heatwave. It’s hard to imagine a lecture film being engaging and interesting (after all, this is Al Gore we’re talking about here), but An Inconvenient Truth was actually better than I thought it would be. Perhaps it [...]