Twenty million listeners are accustomed to hearing the refrain on the radio: "I'm Dr. Laura Schlesinger." While many assume that she's a licensed physician or psychologist, her doctorate is actually in physiology. What's most unfortunate...
17 February 2000
What if a big restaurant chain announced that it was hiring a chief inspector -- and filled the job with the person who'd been in charge of the company's kitchens? We might roll our eyes if the incoming inspector proclaimed from the outset...
10 February 2000
A specter is haunting cyberspace -- the specter of e-vandalism.
Media alarms have been loud recently: Electronic commerce is under siege. A virtual crime wave threatens to wreak havoc on the World Wide Web. Any site is...
Media alarms have been loud recently: Electronic commerce is under siege. A virtual crime wave threatens to wreak havoc on the World Wide Web. Any site is...
08 February 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- I laughed until tears ran down my cheeks Sunday morning.
There was Karl Rove (a.k.a. "Bush's Brain") on television, chatting with the
Sabbath gasbags about how the real champion of
campaign finance reform is ......
06 February 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- Listening to our presidential candidates is a splendid
example of the dog-that-did-not-bark-in-the-night. (The
dog-that-did-not-bark was the crucial clue to the solution of a Sherlock
Holmes mystery. Elementary, my dear...
03 February 2000
AUSTIN, Texas -- There may yet be some instructive points to be mined from
the New Hampshire primary. Perhaps the most important of these is that
George W. Bush is not the front-runner because he is the most able or
effective candidate. He...