Crazy!
He always was crazy and it kept us from going insane. I’m talking, of course, about Waylon Jennings, who passed away on Valentine’s Eve. I …
Category: Reflections
A Whiter Shade of Paleface
Players on the Native American University of Northern Colorado intramural basketball team have named themselves the Fightin’ Whities – to satirize the tradition of using …
Odd Kid Out
Like other John Stossel fans, I await each new ABC program eagerly, always surprised by his choice of an unusual subject and impressed by the …
Next Up, Synchronized Bong-Hitting
The second annual Olympic snowboarding competition got underway in Salt Lake City without the attendance of Nagano’s gold medalist, Canadian Ross Rebagliati. If you remember …
Reflection
“What we have found in Afghanistan confirms that – far from ending there – our war against terror is only beginning.” Mr. Bush’s speechwriters wrote …
Academic Freedom from Information
Recently I tried to discover information about a former colleague, now a full professor at a state university, who had been accused of plagiarism a …
A Man, A Plan, a Boondoogle
The Bush administration is not his father’s Oldsmobile – I mean administration – but it isn’t Ronald Reagan’s either. Bush II is amenable to reducing …
We Can’t Catch Osama, But We Can Catch Cancer Patients
On Feb. 12, the day John Ashcroft and the FBI warned that the danger of a new terrorist attack was especially acute, the Drug Enforcement …
No Pretense of Defense
Time was when the United States went to pains to declare that its overseas military operations were either defensive or came at the behest of …
No Justice, No Freedom
The Andrea Yates murder case underscores the insult to us all that the psychiatric worldview represents. Living well requires effort. It takes work to think …