COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- In Pensacola, Fla., a crowd of pink,
plastic flamingos on the lawn means someone is having a birthday. The
flamingos are usually for a major, zero-ending birthday, so on the day you
turn, say, 50, you walk out of the...
01 May 2003
Eighteen months from now, citizens will vote for president. If the
2004 campaign is anything like the last one, the election returns will
mark the culmination of a depressing media spectacle.
For news watchers, the...
For news watchers, the...
29 April 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- The sour joke is: "Of course we know the Iraqis
have weapons of mass destruction. We have the receipts." At this point, the
administration would probably be delighted if it could find the WMDs the
Reagan...
24 April 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- Boy, there is no shortage of creatively
terrible ideas from the Republican Party these days. Those folks are just
full of notions about how to make people's lives worse -- one horrible idea
after another bursting out like...
15 April 2003
With U.S. troops occupying Iraq and the Bush administration making
bellicose noises about Syria, let's consider some rarely mentioned words
from the most revered writer in American history.
Mark Twain was painfully...
Mark Twain was painfully...
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