Politics | Politics
Oct.14.2008
Dear Senator Obama:
You already know me to be a supporter of yours--not for weeks, or months, but for years. Today, arguably, on the eve of your most important presidential debate, please keep the following things in mind before your face-off with Senator McCain.
First and foremost, what...
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Oct.13.2008
The late great Erma Bombeck once said she didn't know how other people worked out their problems without getting their own column in which to write about them. It is indeed one of the lovely things about being a writer. We can externalize some of our inner conflicts.
And so, thanks to a wonderful...
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Oct.13.2008
In 1981 Luis Valdez wrote and produced `` Corridos'' at El Teatro Campesino in San Juan Bautista, a California mission town. Corridos are dramatizations, with music and dance, of Mexican folk ballads.
Valdez is most famous for ``Zoot Suit,'' and to a lesser degree, ``The Shrunken Head of Pancho...
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Oct.12.2008
Did you happen to catch Sarah Palin tell the Associated Press how "thankful" she is that panel findings show "there weren't any ethics violations, and no laws were broken."
If nothing else, the past thirty-odd years of American history have shown us that sociopaths have found...
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Oct.12.2008
by Robert Grudin
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
-P. J. O'Rourke
It concerned the People to see to it that whilst we are fighting against oppression from the King and Parliament that we did not suffer it to rise up...
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Oct.10.2008
Panel Findings
"Panel Finds Palin Abused Power," or so one headline reads, but who cares? So, she broke the law, so what? It's not as if she's setting a precedent. George W. Bush, and Dick Cheney abuse power, too, and that's not breaking news on CNN, or at the dinner table.
Why is...
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Oct.10.2008
You’d think that the two remaining presidential division heavyweights squaring off on national TV would produce a modicum of action. You know, a knockdown, busted nose; maybe a rabbit punch to the back of the head or a chunk of an ear spit through the ropes into Tom Brokaw’s lap. Something. You’d...
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Oct.09.2008
Gentle Readers, I am sorry for my absence. I have a cold. Not just any cold, mind you. A irritating cold that has left me crabby, tired, and I'm becoming the lady who yells at children for playing and says: "Darned kids!" I am lazy, and I am feeling like a cuscus.
What is a cuscus, you...
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Oct.08.2008
The presidential election has it covered as usual: two to the right, two to the left. The VP candidates are rightihanders, the presidential candidates are lefties (no need to name names, but one's a Red Roomer). Is history being made? Not really.
In `92 we had three prominent lefties running for...
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Oct.07.2008
OK, let’s see. Derivatives; mortgage-backed securities and collateralized investments (which means stuff that is insecure and lacks collateral); credit-default swaps; tranches and bonds and TARPs oh, my; these are the words one needs today to throw around in casual conversation. In...
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