It's taken me quite a while to make up my mind about the
Democratic presidential contest. I find Al Gore as discouraging as everybody
else does. Even if you agree with him, imagine trying to work up enthusiasm
for Gore.
I once spent a...
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05 January 2000
Let's pause a moment before we head for the exits. I'm talking about the
spectacular, the ludicrous, the humiliating and uproarious discomfiture of
the Y2K doomsayers. How deliciously wrong they were! We're dealing here with
one of the...
04 January 2000
Happpy new millennium, everybody! And wasn't that an
instructive little episode? All those nutters and even normal citizens
conned by doom-mongers into laying in supplies and weapons.
And didn't the media have a lovely time scaring us...
02 January 2000
Eternal vigilance is the price of ... um, well, guess we
can't say that anymore. We might get sued.
Mostly when we think of threats to free speech, it's government actions or laws we have in mind -- the usual bizarre stuff like veggie...
02 January 2000
You may think a person would bring up the subject of
political rhetoric in our day only to dis it, to mourn the decline of the
once-noble art, to compare the puny babble of our modern pipsqueaks to the
magnificent cadences of Jefferson,...
31 December 1999
In the nation's biggest news weekly, the final headline of 1999 posed a
question that preoccupies many journalists these days: "A Second American
Century?"
Providing some answers on the last page of Time's Dec. 27 issue, pundit...
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