Burning the Candles at Both Ends
I didn’t track this scientifically but it seems that George Bush has taken far less vacation time in 2006 than in, say, 2001. I wonder …
Cindy Descending
In Cindy Sheehan, my gener- ation finally has its own Hanoi Jane. Whether in Crawford camping out in a ditch with a bunch of hippies, …
Spare the Rod
I got to thinking about failed states recently, especially in Africa, what with the news that 12% of South Africans may be HIV positive, the …
Bush vs. Patton
Bush vs. Patton – Administration figures are try- ing their hardest to fend off calls for a timetable for troop withdrawal: • George W. Bush, …
The Last Refuge
An annoying tic in media coverage of wartime America is the equivocation of the sudden surge of interest in working for the federal government with …
A Very Highly Regulated Militia
I had to get fingerprinted at the county Public Safety Building before I could begin my’new job. Since Sept. 11, the security forces at the …