A friend of mine who was in the Navy told me that the flight suit that George Bush wore at his slightly premature ”mission accomplished” visit a few miles off…
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Imagine for a moment two burly men engaged in arm-wrestling, pushing each other a few centimeters one way and the other, but locked in a grip in which neither can…
Ryan’s zits can barely be discerned in the screen glow from the 20-inch monitor. He peers into it with an intense gaze of concentration; his wrist muscles flexing beneath…
One hears and reads a good deal these days about how fundamentalist hate-mongering Muslims are taking over Islam, and how we must battle them and help pacific Muslims purge them…
If you have any Republican friends left (Yes, I do, and some of then might be reading this) and the very term “Republican friends” doesn’t seem these days like a…
Programming on NPR today quite understandably included segments related to the celebration of our independence. There were views of politicians and soldiers from Iraq, coverage of Bush’s message, etc.…
This land is your land, This land is my land From California, to the New York island; From the red wood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters This land was…
Elections, like wars, are complex events in which it is difficult to assign specific causality to outcomes. In a close election amidst a “culture war” that difficulty is amplified…
I am beginning to think that generals make the worst liars. It must be something about the binary nature of their business; you are either dead or alive, the…
Everything’s out-of-date in Kansas Ci – ty / They’re back about as far as they can go . . . The genesis (oops, forgot to capitalize that word) of…