Monthly Archives: December 1996

In the Bleak Midwinter

12/26/1996 – 3:46 pm

This year marks the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ. I know that sounds premature, but when the current calendar was devised, it was off by four years. Two millennia later, how fares the spirit of Christmas? Each year, in the weeks before Christmas, I have that uneasy Charlie-Brown, what’s-this-all-about feeling. I […]

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Where Have All the Sea Lions Gone?

12/19/1996 – 3:45 pm

Some time between now and January 4th, the National Marine Fisheries Service will list the Steller sea lion as an endangered species. It may strike you as odd that the Fisheries Service would choose the year-end holiday season as a moment to add a member to the endangered species list. So many people – journalists, […]

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees

12/12/1996 – 3:43 pm

If you listen to these comments each week, I’m going to assume you’re a serious consumer of news and if you are, I’m going to assume you heard last week that the federal government is offering Texan Charles Hurwitz $300 million in public assets in exchange for 7,500 acres of old-growth forest in northern California. […]

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Bush League

12/5/1996 – 3:41 pm

Five weeks ago, in this commentary, I speculated George Bush must have nothing to do now that voters have deprived him of the opportunity to send troops off to be poisoned in Iraq. Well, I was wrong and I admit it. It turns out George Bush has plenty to do. It seems our former president […]

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