Monthly Archives: November 2004

Decoding the Turkey

11/25/2004 – 8:09 am

Sharing a meal is the oldest of rituals; the first hominids to share food with those beyond their family group took the first – and probably largest – step on the path toward civilization. What a transcendent act it must have been, 20,000 years ago, to give away food. It’s not surprising that eating [...]

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Welcome to the Monkey House

11/18/2004 – 2:32 pm

After a week of intense fighting, often at close quarters, it now seems the remaining insurgents are being driven from the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency.
That’s what this is all about, isn’t it? It’s astounding, that even at this late date, one can read “thought” pieces in the mainstream media urging George [...]

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Practice What You Preach

11/11/2004 – 11:52 am

Today is the 11th of November; when I was a child, people still called this “Armistice Day,” in commemoration of the cease-fire that ended the First World War. Maybe it’s a good day to call an armistice in America’s red-vs.-blue civil war. Maybe not.
Presidential advisor Karl Rove was quoted in Wednesday’s New York [...]

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The Government We Deserve

11/4/2004 – 9:33 am

It was dusk on Election Day and I was reaching a state of exhilaration. Exhausted, dehydrated, I had been running on adrenaline for the past 36 hours and now I was literally running through a low-income housing project in Ocala, Florida.
We’d been through there a few days before, knocking on doors, urging citizens to [...]

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