Monthly Archives: September 2000

Not a Sport

9/28/2000 – 11:41 am

Are the Olympics not over yet? Can I locate the grave of P.T. Barnum and crush some sour grapes on his headstone? It was Mr. Barnum who said no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. He was right, too. Viewership of the games from Sydney is off, but everyone blames […]

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Consent of the Governed

9/21/2000 – 11:38 am

Welcome to the future. Are we having fun yet? Or maybe it’s the past, I’m not really sure which. I watch the news and believe I’m seeing events futurists predicted a few decades ago. In the next moment, I’m wondering what historians will be writing about us 50 years from now. Here’s what I’m thinking: […]

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Asinine Projects

9/14/2000 – 11:35 am

In the past few months, I’ve noticed the New York Times putting little tags on its stories. If the story is about the election, the tag might say “The Candidate” or “The Ad Wars.” Last week, on a story tagged “Enforcement,” the Times headline said, “CIA Is Said to Find Iraq Gives Contracts to Nations […]

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Agree to Disagree

9/7/2000 – 11:32 am

Labor Day, as we’ve heard so often this week, signals the traditional beginning of the fall campaign season. The operative word is “traditional.” A “traditional” campaign season is something I think about the same way I think of “an old-fashioned Christmas.” Something that existed many years ago and is nearly forgotten. Maybe Grover Cleveland versus […]

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