Sitemap - 2006 - The Dark Side of the Moon
A Very Interesting Thing Happened on the Way to Justice
Wandering Through a Morass of Money—The Quagmire Called Procurement
Dick Cheney's Fingerprints
A War That We Now Find Ourselves In
With the Best of Intentions, But Wrong Again
Cancer Strikes the Business Model
Trying Desperately Not to ‘Lose’ What is Already Lost
Not On the Breakfast Menu—Humble Pie
A Bigger Threat Than Terrorism
Back Off a Bit, You’re Breaking My Leg
Twelve Days to the Wheels Coming Off
The Airline Industry, Following Detroit Down the Tube
Mark Nord Gives ‘Security’ a New Definition
See No Opinion, Hear No Opinion, Speak No Opinion
Suddenly a “Great Opportunity”
Secrecy—a Death Blow to Oversight--a Cover for Incompetence
A Made-to-Order Exit Policy in Iraq
Good Bye Username and Password
Finally, a Frank Assessment From the State Department
At What Cost Victory and How is it Defined?
Promoting Peace, a Hope at a Time
Mike Chertoff Invites You to Pick a Target
The Difference Between Winning and Watching the Other Guy Lose
Seeing Things, Hearing Things, That Only He Can See and Hear
Stepping Up to the Plate in October
“The Way It Is, Not the Way Somebody Would Hope It Would Be”
Protections From Washington’s ‘Ethical Undertow’
Wal-Mart Does What Congress Won’t
In a Rush to Make Things Worse
A Sell-Out Masquerades as Compromise
Running Jurisprudence Through the Shredder
Getting Back to Teaching in the Primary and Secondary Schools
Securing Baghdad Cuts Both Ways
Nancy Pelosi and Eight Great Tomatoes
Bo Derek and Willie Nelson, Horses of a Different Color
I Get Over the Flu and Bush Memorializes 9-11
Hewlett Packard Needs to Ask For Another Resignation
Meanwhile, In the ‘Logical Interpretations’ Department
Scared Witless and Playing the Patriot Card
Conserving Scenery, Natural Historic Objects and the Wildlife Therein
Crying Foul At the Hitler Reference
Nursultan “The Thumb” Nazarbayev Gets the Bush Red Carpet
Blogging From the Front and War Will Never Be the Same
Among the Policies That Don’t Work, Add the Drug War
The Last Throes and The Final Stretch—Defining an Administration
Carry-On Luggage? Who Needs It?
Pat Buchanan, Racist Extraordinaire
Dumb Luck Will Have To Be Good Enough
Are Political Pundits Smart Enough to Advise the Nation?
Rearranging the Digital Furniture
Is Sixty Years Too Long a Wait?
It’s Hard to See What Joe Wants, Except That Joe Wants It
Newt Gingrich Has Said Some Interesting Things, But This Wasn’t One of Them
Inflammatory Bandying About of Hot-Button Words
What Happened to PragueWriter?
Lessons Still Not Learned; Hamas and Hezbollah
‘In the Family’s Best Interest,’ Ohio Style
Does the Tour de France Matter Anymore?
Pandering Their Way to the Mid-Terms
Arithmetic and General Motors; Just Too Many Zeros
The Middle East as ‘Tinderbox’
Another Clarion Call From the House of Shame
A Nation of Law, Unless It’s Inconvenient
Congress Bravely Salutes the Flag of Expedience
Why Detroit Doesn’t Deserve to Survive in Automobile Manufacturing
Maybe Time to Take Another Look at the Military Draft
Didn’t Martha Go to the Slammer for This?
Why Not Just Shoot Network TV and Get it Over With
You Can Tell the War in Iraq is Winding Down
Congress, America’s Tajikistan
An Administration That Just Doesn’t Get the Purpose of Law
About to Maybe Get Close to Thinking About Possibly . . .
Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Andrew Carnegie
A Pig is Worth More After It’s Butchered
Veering For Sure, But Veering Back
Betrayed, the Raid on Medicaid
At Veterans Affairs, Another Hopelessly Amateur Screw-Up
Driver’s License, American Express and National ID
Same Old Perle Before the Same Old Swine
Emergency Rooms, the New Primary-Care Centers
Real Estate Prices and Martin Luther King, Jr.
You and I Should Be ‘Stuck’ Like This
An Exciting Example of Assertive Action
Teddy Kennedy’s Suicide Squeeze
A Law Not Enforced Is No Law At All
A Hat-Trick For Pharmaceutical Killing
For Pfizer, Killing You is an Inconvenient Side Effect
Flat-Tax and Flat-Earth, Two Disproved Theories
The Hastert Legacy to Representative Government
Impressing the Inner Circle--A Lesson in Wealth, Ability and Power
A Constitutional Right to Thievery and Deceit
Glacially, the New York Times Enters This Century
An Indecent Proposal From Senator Bill Frist
It’s Never About What It’s About
Taxes Are No Longer About Income For Government
A Leak in Everything, That’s How the Light Gets In
No Fly—No Work--No Damned Good
Trying to Get My Mind Around Barbaro
Shooting the Horse They Rode In On
Flogging the Base and Losing the Majority
The Most Chilling Thing Is, We Will Be Told It Works
Another Incredible Failure of Vision
Major Explosions in the Middle East
Michael Chertoff Trips Up His President Again
Michael Chertoff Trips Up His President Again
Mint Juleps and the Smell of Kentucky Bluegrass
Retribution May Not Play All That Well
Four-Dollar Gasoline? Get Over It
The Good Hands People are Washing Their Hands
Outraged Against Themselves, Congress Throws a Tantrum
A Writer, Not Necessarily an Author
Mowing Down a Marketing Bonanza
The World According to Melvin Laird
Welcome to International Politics, to Deal With China, Press 9
Angry As Hell for Not Paying Attention
Hell Breaking Loose, in a General Sort of Way
An Open Letter to George Soros
If Iranians Don’t Cooperate, I’ll Shoot Myself In the Other Foot
Lessons Forgotten From My Old Daddy
The Flow of Charles Krauthammer’s River
‘Selective’ Freedom of Speech?
A Wake-Up Call Over Arrogance and Power
A Possible 'Third Way' To Use Wild Lands
Thinking the Unthinkable, An American-Mexican Barricade
Iran Proposes Nuclear Destruction of the Dollar
Senior Fellows, the Cookings at Brookings
Needing the Cash To Keep On Needing the Cash
Janet Jackson’s Breast vs Jack Abramoff’s Bust
Hacked To Death, New Notes On the New Terrorism
The Smoke and Mirrors Behind the Smoke and Mirrors
Sometimes It's Interesting to Look Back
A Quiet Little Deal By Uncle Pat
A Whale Of a Controversy Over Sonar
DeLay and Rostenkowski, No Surprises There
To Watch It All a Second Time, Press 9
Dubai or Not to Buy, That is the Question
A Golden Parachute For George Walker Bush
Parenting Kids and Occasionally, When Needed, Our Country
A Baseball-Player Senator With No Stuff On His Pitch
I Have a Hunch There Will Be No More Karl Roves
Vaudeville and the Great White Way Comes to Washington
Something Way Out of Whack (and I Just Patented Whack)
If You Hold a Shell to Your Ear, You Can Hear Ted Kennedy
Secretary of State Rice, a Surgeon in Galoshes
The Intellect Elects Not to Connect All the Dots
So Much for Democratic Elections
It’s Always Canada and the U.S. in the Final . . Or is It?
Condi Rice's Diplomacy of Ever-Increasing Pressure
The Romanian Answer to Dictators
A Prison Poet Steps Across My E-mail
Trade Gaps, Tax Cuts and Deficits, Details at 11
Democrats Sobbing Into Their Pillows
Darwin and the Agency-Disasters Game
Small Again, It’s Small, You Dummies
Paul Farhi’s Turn to Be An Absurdist
Things I Learn On the Way to Other Things
Goin’ to the Mat for Scooter (Libby’s Liberal Litigation Fund)
Some Things Just Don’t Work Out
Business Targets Law Enforcement
Man Refuses to Sell Big Mac, Sues McDonald’s For Loss of Job
Eliminate the “State of the Union” Address? What’s Left Then?
Taking a Poll Instead of a Position
The Blogs Are Alive With the Sound of Democrats
Nuclear Proliferation Has Its Place
The Man Offered Me Money, the Crook
Missing the Point on the Jack Abramoff Scandal
Health Issues Take to the Street
The Tokyo Exchange Spotlights a Potential Disaster
If You Can’t Stand the Heat . . .