Halloween is a time when the scariest creatures lurk not in graveyards, but in front of televisions broadcasting the World Series. First there's the armchair baseball coach. Slithering from under his rock once a year to wax idiotic about the World Series, this Descartes of the diamond is quick with ...
Okay, it's official. I'm sick of the presidential election. I no longer care to dissect President Bush's facial expressions during the debate, or what kind of wood John Kerry is made of. If I want to be bored to death by wooden soldiers, I'll watch The Nutcracker. For the record, I'm registered to vote, ...
The dispute over the authenticity of documents reported by CBS News to have clarified President Bush?s National Guard Service came to a head Monday when Dan Rather, who originally reported the documents, apologized for the story CBS management dubbed a ?mistake?. For the past week, Republican pundits ...
As if the contempt I already held for guerrilla marketingtactics weren't enough, now there's undercover marketing, where thehawking of everything from cell phones to cigarettes is disguisedas human interaction. I didn't need another reason to be suspicious of strangers whotalk to me out of the blue, ...
Security is a sliding scale. At one end, no one can do anything,and at the other, anyone can do anything. An ongoing argumentexists over where to set the scale when it comes to our ownsafety. This week, the Democratic National Convention is being heldunder some of the tightest security ever seen. Miles ...
Former Clinton national security adviser Samuel Berger shouldknow better. It's easy to imagine that when a former national securityadviser shows up at the National Archives to review documents fromthe administration in which he served, the archivists give thatadviser a wide berth. And if Berger spent ...
Here we are again, powerless against another proposed taxincrease in the name of failing schools. How many times will we beblackmailed into opening our wallets by "suffer the littlechildren" guilt tactics? I tuned into the local news Sunday to find a reporter presentingnumbers that the increase would ...
With John Kerry's choice of Sen. John Edwards as his vicepresidential running mate being scrutinized by politicalstrategists both amateur and professional, it's worth another lookat what it takes to be a modern day veep. Obviously, the most important job a VP will ever perform is thatof assuming the ...
The timing couldn't have been better. Fahrenheit 9/11 had spentthe weekend breaking box office records, earning $21.9 million withits staunch anti-Bush message. The morning talk shows were ready toeither roast or reward Michael Moore's rousing defeat of censorshipand to predict it's affect on the November ...
If we can reasonably assume conservative republicanright-wingers see former president Bill Clinton's memoir My Life aslittle more than a spin-filled, aw-shucks, legacy life preserver,those objective few who remain can have an intelligent conversationabout it. At nearly 1,000 pages, the Clinton tome ...
