AUSTIN, Texas -- When I was in my 20s, the subject of insurance was so
vastly boring that it was a way to describe a bad date: "like talking to an
insurance salesman." It's still sort of like your teeth -- something you'd
rather not think...
12 September 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- The "case" against Wen Ho Lee of the Los Alamos Laboratory
is disgraceful. The man was held for nine months over a "case" that never
even rose to the level of contempt. And by and large, the media have been
culpable as...
10 September 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Let's all take a long step back and then look at this
again: Is the human race just another species in the long history of Earth
that's too dumb to adapt and survive?
We clever upright primates have so far outstripped...
07 September 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- OK, let's try this again verrrrry slowly, class -- like Al
Gore in his Mr. Rogers mode.
George W. Bush on education, supposedly his strong point, is making no sense. He is getting it all wrong and is dumbing down what...
07 September 2000
After many months of controversy over her anti-gay statements to millions
of radio listeners, Dr. Laura ascended the airwaves to an even higher and
mightier pulpit. Her crusade has reached televisionland.
Over the summer, Schlessinger...
01 September 2000
When I took Texas history in public school, we weren't
taught one single thing about the labor movement in this state -- but we did
learn the name of the horse that Sam Houston rode at the Battle of San
Jacinto, which happened to be...
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