Monthly Archives: June 2004

On the Bus

6/24/2004 – 8:48 am

Two or three times a week, I commute from my house in Burlington to the state capital Montpelier, 40 miles away. It takes about an hour each way and the hours I spend commuting are among the most relaxing I spend all week. I ride the bus.
I know, I know, I’m not supposed [...]

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Humiliation, Revisited

6/17/2004 – 8:30 pm

In 1995, I was among a number of Greenpeace activists arrested in a non-violent protest at the French ambassador’s residence in Washington, DC. We’d embarrassed the Secret Service, so when we got to jail, they gave us the treatment. We were strip-searched, placed in handcuffs with restraining belts and leg shackles. We were rousted from [...]

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Reagan Lives

6/10/2004 – 9:33 am

George W. Bush recently told Bob Woodward that history’s judgement of his presidency doesn’t matter to him, because he’ll be dead. If he’s right, history can commence judgement of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, but Mr. Bush is wrong, at least in Mr. Reagan’s case. He may be dead, but it’s too soon to draw [...]

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Fool Sovereignty

6/3/2004 – 10:40 am

Sometime between now and the June 30th deadline for handing over “full sovereignty” to the new Iraqi government, some American representative will have to walk into the Iraqi desert and count the grains of sand, to make sure they’re all handed over. The unlucky bureaucrat assigned to this task can use neither supercomputer nor [...]

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