Monthly Archives: March 2005

Have a Banana

3/31/2005 – 11:04 am

There’s an old joke about a mountain guide who tells his climbing party: “Watch your step on this ledge, if you slip you’ll fall 400 feet. If you do slip, however, look to your right, you’ll never see a view like that again in your life.”
We are all of us stepping along a ledge [...]

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Judgment Day

3/24/2005 – 11:35 am

The front page of the Washington Post’s web site last night carried a story about a technical mishap at Fox television that caused some votes on “American Idol” to be recorded incorrectly. As a result, Fox will air an extra hour of “American Idol,” with – darn! – more expensive ad revenue.
The top story [...]

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

3/17/2005 – 9:01 am

This week marks the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, another dreary reminder that the Army is bogged in quagmire and there seems to be no way out. George Bush, when asked about this will grip the presidential podium on both sides, assume that misty, far-off gaze and say, “At least the [...]

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Filibuster Bolton

3/10/2005 – 2:04 pm

Hardly a week has passed since the November election without the publication of an analysis piece about the possibility of Senate Republicans invoking the “nuclear option.‿ The “nuclear option‿ refers to a showdown over the use of filibuster to stall a handful of George Bush’s nominees to the federal courts.
The filibuster is a practice [...]

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Dumping Dollars

3/3/2005 – 11:15 am

Wall Street suffered a one-day panic last week when a rumor floated that South Korea’s central bank was looking to dump some of its reserves of U.S. dollars. The Koreans quickly denied the rumor and order was restored, but you can’t blame Asian bankers for getting nervous. As of December 2004, Japan, China, [...]

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