Mainstream news accounts have finally fingered Battelle Memorial Institute, the spooky Dr. Strangelove Institute in Columbus, as ground zero in our domestic military-industrial anthrax scare. With five people dead and eighteen ill,...
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14 January 2002
The art of the deal is a media dream: Savvy achievers get to the top.
Guile and artifice -- even outright deception -- may well be part of the
game, but there's nothing like success. One way or another, money and
centralized power end...
10 January 2002
AUSTIN -- And a happy New Year to all the friendly folks at the
Henry Cisneros' special prosecutor's office, now coming up on its seventh
year. Cisneros, who left office five ago as Clinton's housing secretary, is
back in San Antonio...
08 January 2002
AUSTIN -- The president has taken to saying peculiar things
again. "There are no shades of gray in our war on terrorism," he announced
the other day. Excuse me, but if you've ever seen anything grayer than some
of our warlord allies in...
03 January 2002
AUSTIN -- Here comes everyone's favorite season: The tree is
down, the bills are due, January, February, Ry-Krisp and cottage cheese.
T'is the festive season for one of our nation's leading industries --...
T'is the festive season for one of our nation's leading industries --...
03 January 2002
If my memory is correct, it was a Jerry Lewis movie. More than 40
years later, I still remember the scenes of a grown man so gullible that
he believed his television. What a laugh riot! The guy dashed out to shop
every time a commercial...