Monthly Archives: May 1997

Our Most Idle Pastime

5/29/1997 – 3:53 pm

A few weeks ago, in New Orleans, I heard Paul Hawken speak about consumption of resources. He had a video with him, which showed a map of the world. On the map were white dots, each dot representing one million people. The video timeline began in the year One, A.D. and ran [...]

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The Numbers Game

5/22/1997 – 3:52 pm

I’m on the road this week, calling in from Houston, Texas. I won’t try to hide my dislike of Houston – it seems to have taken all our bad ideas and run them out to ridiculous extremes. Strip malls and overpriced prefab houses, everything drenched in lawn chemicals. Freeways and tollways, everyone [...]

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Helter Shelter

5/15/1997 – 3:50 pm

The more I read the newspapers, the more I keep coming back to the same question: If agricultural chemicals are so safe, why do members of anti-government militias keep using them to make bombs? If it’s not a report from the McVeigh trial, then it’s the Republic of Texas or another clutch of wackos [...]

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Costs of Free Trade

5/8/1997 – 3:49 pm

If you’re one of those people who follow Congress, you know our elected representatives will soon debate whether we should extend the current most-favored-nation trading status to the People’s Republic of China. Deng Xiaoping is dead but little has changed in China; anyone who has the courage to publicly disagree with the government is [...]

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Sticking With the Union

5/1/1997 – 3:47 pm

Three weeks ago, I did something I should have done a long time ago. I joined a union. You are now being addressed by a member of the National Writers Union, United Auto Workers, Local 1981, AFL-CIO.
You may think that because I joined the union I have a grievance; perhaps I have a [...]

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