24 December 2003 >> At the end of a year that recently saw Brain Terminal record its 5,000,000th hit, I realize that there are many things for which I should be grateful. One of them is the readership of this site. Judging from the e-mails I receive, you must be among the kindest and most informed people on the Internet. And that’s generally true whether you agree with me or not. More >>

17 December 2003 >> At some point, changing babies where people are eating food and drinking coffee became acceptable. For some reason, I was not notified. More >>

8 December 2003 >> When President Bush tried to help American companies by imposing surcharges on imported steel, some Democrats—as you might expect—criticized him. After all, the steel industry is not only business, it is big, as in big belching smokestacks spewing cancerous clouds that eventually end up absorbed in the lungs of small children and cute, furry animals. From the perspective of his opponents, this one move could be used to symbolize the entire Bush presidency: they could accuse him of helping his corporate fat-cat buddies get rich by polluting while giving the unilateral finger to Europe, whose steel suppliers were put at a disadvantage. More >>