"I didn't want to die for Nixon," said a man I met recently in a Seattle
park. He'd served on military bases in a half dozen states, then had a car
accident just before being shipped to Vietnam. "The accident was lucky," he
said. "It was a...
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20 April 2006
HOUSTON -- "Compare and contrast," read the directions for essay exams in the old college blue books. Compare and contrast the trials of Zacarias Moussaoui and Jeffrey Skilling.
Moussaoui appears to be headed for...
Moussaoui appears to be headed for...
20 April 2006
The vision of a fully green-powered Earth---SOLARTOPIA!---can and must become reality by 2030.
The nay-sayers are wrong. So are the global warming deniers. And the advocates of a lunatic re-birth of nuclear power, a mutant...
The nay-sayers are wrong. So are the global warming deniers. And the advocates of a lunatic re-birth of nuclear power, a mutant...
19 April 2006
An AP article on Tuesday begins: "President Bush bats away talk of bombing Iran's disputed nuclear sites as 'wild speculation.' But plodding diplomacy hasn't borne fruit so far, and the administration is facing a hard truth: There may be...
19 April 2006
One of the nation’s leading pollsters, Andrew Kohut of the Pew
Research Center, wrote a few weeks ago that among Americans “there is
little potential support for the use of force against Iran.” This month
the White House has continued to...
14 April 2006
America is a nation of losers. It's the best thing about us. We're the dregs, what the rest of the world barfed up and threw on our shores.
John Kennedy said we are "a nation of immigrants." That's the sanitized phrase. We...
John Kennedy said we are "a nation of immigrants." That's the sanitized phrase. We...
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