Sitemap - 2005 - The Dark Side of the Moon

Shoes, It’s Raining Shoes

Writing in Silence, Editing at Risk

Encouraging Responsibility (Yours, Not Mine)

Taking a Bead on Bambi

Don’t Talk About Leaders, I Want to Hear About Lenders

Entrapped By French Philosophy, Without a Clue

Senator Proxmire and the Golden Fleece

Major Ben Connable Checks In

Following Up on the Elusive Ben Connable

America May Strike Out at the World Baseball Classic

Circling the Wagons in Washington

Innocent Is Nice, But Take a Hike

Who and Where Is Major Ben Connable?

Google vs Microsoft, Beauty and the Beast

Injustice Ain’t Blind, Condi

A Snowball in Hell

Rumsfeld is Not the Problem

Our Newly-Lost Sense of Astonishment

Great Reasons to Entirely Get Rid of the Income Tax, #1

Sorry David, It’s Absolutely NOT the Age of Skepticism

Doing Away With Tookie

A Snake River-Colunbia River Fish Story

There’s a Strong Consensus Building

Corporate Ethics vs Congressional Ethics, There Is a Difference

Deeply Split By the Mid-Term Axe

It’s Not Where You Are, It’s What You See

The Grapes of Warlord Wrath

Someone Forgot to Tell Bill Ford

The First Shoe to Drop

Asia Can Afford to Turn Its Back

We Tried “Limited Government” and it Failed

Leaky Government, the Safest Kind There Is

Detroit’s Delphic Oracle

Judiciary’s Hilarious Take on Recusal

A Fisherman’s (possible) Dream Fish

The Karl Rove Dream

Probable Cause Rides Off Into the Sunset

Where Are You, Ross Perot?

A Correctly Chosen Nominee

A Reputation in Tatters

Bureaucracy, Time to Downsize

Another Opportunity Slipping

If We’re Broke, Who Broke Us?

Enhancement Takes on a Whole New Meaning

Freedom of Speech Manipulated

The Wet Spot in The Backyard

The Next Sound You Hear

The Second-Term Syndrome

All In a Government Day’s Work

Aspirin for a Broken Leg

Not Caring Much For Arrogance

The Persistent Myth of “Harming the Economy”

Torture Within the American Prison System

The Sound of the Far Right Going Nuts

A Clearly Rattled President, A Clearly Wrong Request

A Life Well Spent

Napoleon Sends a Message to Tom DeLay

Medical Consumers Aren’t Even In the Loop

I’d Love the Job, How About the Liability?

Labor and Management, Mutual Destroyers

There’s No Business Like No-Bid ness

America Coming of Age

Insurance Coverage, Conveniently After the Fact

The Honorary Degree, a Template For Patronage

Looking For An Evil Capitalist

The Image of Greatness Is Not Greatness

Flushing Our Gulf Toilet

Republicans at the Wailing Wall

Our Constitution, Kicking Up Its Heels

Hurricane Dissemble Makes Landfall at 9pm

Hurricane Dissemble Makes Landfall at 9pm

The Flim-Flam Man, Details at Nine

Katrina Wets the Pants of Both Parties

The Lid Is Off the Honey Pot

Rumsfeld, Busy With the Bizarre

Karen Hughes, PhotoShopping America

Sitting On Trent Lott’s Porch

Corporate America, Way Too Greedy At the Top

Find Someone, Anyone But Me, to Blame

Another U. S. Army Shame Under Donald Rumsfeld

The Need to Belong

Poor Depends On Where You Live

Will the Last Woman With a Voice, Please Turn Out the Lights

Detroit Auto-Makers on the Cutting Edge

Apple and the Music Industry, Two Flavors of Intransigence

Taking Time to Take Time Off

Let the Great Sacrifice Begin

Pat Robertson Needs a Reality Check

It’s Cut-and-Run Time

If You Can’t Change the Judgment, Change the Judge

Swoon and Wilt Take On a Whole New Meaning

Exit Strategies, a Lesson in Impotence

The Lowered-Expectations Presidency

Trim the Hedge Before the Hedge Trims You

This Little Piggy Went to Congress

A Tale of Four Generals

Buddy, Can You Spare a Thousand Billion?

Dissembling a Disgrace

What Does a John Bolton Appointment Mean for a Bill Clinton Election?

Another Chicago Architectural Landmark

Where Are You, John L. Lewis?

Sense and Nonsense

Elmore Leonard and the Supreme Court

Hospitals, Places Where You Go to Get Sick

Advocacy Trumps Philosophy

From an Undisclosed Location, a Message in a Bottle

Notes From an Undisclosed Location

Too Ready for Too Long to Back Down Now

America Dishonored

Tribal Abuse Follow-Up

Another Paranoia Presidency

A Bolt-On Solution

New Jersey in the Driver’s Seat

Any Old Road Will Do

Indian Abuse Coming Home to Roost

Dressing For Dinner

The Civilized Mind

Still Snake-Bit

The Failed Arithmetic of Seven Plus One Equals Eight

A Woman Stepping Down Requires Women Standing Up

Exactly What Is It You Guys Do?

Bunker Mentality at WTC

Spreading Democracy

A Win For Everyone But Big Oil

China and Unocal, Have a Cookie!

No Child Left Behind . . .

The Jack-Armstrong Political Action Committee (JAPAC)

The Incentive Killers

Picking Up Our Marbles and Going Home

It’s 1am, Do You Know Where Your Credit Card Is?

An Open Letter to Tony Blair

Bad Tax Policy Strikes Again

Disingenuous, a Presidency Defined

China Announces Program to Dominate Space

Talking the Talk

Those Rascally Computer Games

Time to Ante Up

The Sweet Smell of Subsidy Farming

Shaw’s Law

Send a Surrogate to Prison

To Quote John Dillinger . . .

Tangled Webs

Poles Apart

Losing Sight of FDR

My Plan to Save General Motors

Photo-Shopping the First Amendment

Al-Jazeera, an Accidental Ally

Homeland Security’s Insecurity

Puttin’ On My Derby Hat

Follow the Yellow-Brick Road

Taking a Pass With Young Lives

The Naked Weather Girl

The Case of the Timid Prosecutor

A Hard Day For Managed News

Will the Real Alan Greenspan Please Stand Up?

We Take Care of Our Own

The Essence of Being American

Dissent and My Right to It

The Row Over Roe

The Day the Lights Went Out

Bolton Might be Bright or He Might Just be Nuts

Closing Time

Doesn’t Cost All That Much to Influence Your Senator or Representative

Include Me Out

The American Century, Five Years Behind Us

Judge Not, Lest Ye Be Judged

Just Ask, Tom

Who’s Ox is Being Gored?

Bobby and Me, Partners in Crime

And You Thought Social Security Was a Hard Sell

Parachuting In

The Wall Street Welcome

Dear Valued Customer

Spring Plowing on the Fish Farm

Minimum Wage With the Emphasis on Minimum

GM’s Cocooned Fourteenth Floor

Why Protect Bob Novak?

A Wolf at the Door of the World Bank

Wild Horses Couldn't Drag Me . . .

The Demise of the Diplomat

Saying Goodbye to Daddy’s Cadillac

Service Jobs? Excuse Me?

Who’s God are We Talking About?

Extraordinary Rendition Doesn’t Mean a Great Song in the Third Act

Savoring a Moment

The Force of the Few Submits to the Power of the Many

Spying is a Risky Business

What’s the Correct Wine with Crow?

The Fallacy of the 80 Hour Week

Bob Samuelson's Column

What Is It With the Clothes?

No Finger’s Gonna Save This Dike

Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh . . .

Two Guys Who Need to Lose a Star

W's Willing Deficits

A Poem for a Change

Privatizing? Maybe Not All Bad.

My Gut Seldom Lies

Say What?

Don't Need to Study This

Don't Blame the Old-Timers

The Everett Dirkson Billion

A Little Song, a Little Dance (a little high-test down your pants)

Phillip Johnson

Part Two, Another Toy for the Donald

Another Toy for the Donald

Gonzales Policy Doesn’t Bind, Unless it Does

Eternities ago on the Tigris and Euphrates

Here's a Hundred Bucks, Go to College!

Conservative Republicans?

Time For the Landscape Architects

The Emperor has no Clothes

Going Up in Smoke

Lots of Luck in Iraq

Religion (and other things) Without Fear

The Corporate Chop-Shop