The silver lining: Maybe at last we can finally retire
that
awful phrase that has been flapping its way through the newspaper
headlines
since the Clinton campaign of 1992, "It's the economy, stupid."
About a day before I decided to write this me and a couple friends were having a discussion about the nature of the columbus activist community. A little joke came up between us where we gave our activist community a motto:"Welcome to...
The memorial at Kent State University was the perfect place to walk and talk with Paul Wellstone. He was hurting from an old college wrestling injury, and perhaps, though we didn't know it then, from the onset of MS. So he could barely...
We live in the "blowback" years. By blowback we mean, what goes around comes around. Unforeseen consequences, or foreseen but ignored. Unleash the mujahiddeen on the Soviets in Afghanistan, and you end up with Osama bin Laden. Blowback...
If George Bush pulls 100 percent of the vote the next go-round in Florida, would he, too, proclaim a general amnesty for all federal prisoners, the way Saddam Hussein has just done after pulling his 100 percent under polling conditions...