AUSTIN, Texas -- Holy smoke! I know hellzapoppin' with the news here lately, but let's try keeping our eye on the shell with the pea under it. Fascinating as all this inside-D.C. stuff is about Rummy and Cheney, and who leaked the CIA...
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22 October 2003
SEATTLE -- What a gully-washer. What a frog-strangler. You ain't seen rain until you've seen record rain in Seattle. My wetness awareness has shot up thanks to this town. But next day, the sun came out -- and you could hardly tell the...
20 October 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- What I like about the new radical, right-wing Republican takeover of this country is how easily they blow past all our defenses against deja-vu, they-all-do-it cynicism.
There you are -- thinking...
There you are -- thinking...
18 October 2003
Midway through this month, a Wall Street Journal headline captured
the flimflam spirit that infuses so much of what passes for mass
communications these days: “Despite Slump, Students Flock to Ad
Schools.” Many young people can recognize a...
16 October 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- I'm a card-carrying member of The Great Liberal Backlash of 2003, one of the half-dozen or so writers now schlepping around the country promoting books that do not speak kindly of Our Leader's record. As a group, we are...
10 October 2003
Now that California’s electorate has rewarded a dramatic recall
effort, some sequels are likely elsewhere in the near future. It’s a
good bet that political operatives in many states will try to learn
from this fall’s Golden State...
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