Author Archives: floegel

Great Expectations

4/26/2001 – 4:42 pm

It’s not whether you win or lose that counts, but did you beat the point spread? Anyone who’s ever risked a friendly fiver on a football game knows the truth of that statement. If you bet on the underdogs, you don’t need them to win, you just need them to make it close enough to […]

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Couldn’t Be Clearer

4/19/2001 – 4:40 pm

Welcome to history week, 101. It kicked off Monday, Patriot’s Day in Massachusetts, a commemoration of the Battle of Lexington and Concord, moved to the nearest Monday. One of our sharp-eyed correspondents spotted Paul Revere trotting along Mass Ave. in Boston at noon with a police cruiser in front, two mounted state troopers and backed-up […]

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The Absence of War

4/12/2001 – 4:38 pm

I suppose it’s my own fault for watching television. It was, I don’t know, a month ago and I was watching “The West Wing” – I know, I have no excuse – and one of these White House jerks – the bald one – was leaking bile because he had to talk to anti-globalization activists, […]

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Conspiracy Theories

4/5/2001 – 4:36 pm

Now that the Republican Party controls the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives, certain people along the American political spectrum are feeling free to indulge their paranoid fantasies, more so now than at any time since Ronald Reagan was declaring trees cause pollution and announcing we would begin bombing the Soviet Union […]

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Green, As in Greenback

3/29/2001 – 4:34 pm

Over a week has passed since the vernal equinox, daylight savings time begins on Sunday, there’s still three feet of snow in my front yard, March madness will not end until April second and if your phone is ringing, don’t answer it. Chances are, the person at the other end of the ringing phone is […]

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Responding to Realities

3/22/2001 – 4:32 pm

Who, exactly, is the president of the United States? The occupant of the Oval Office’s first name is George, his last name is Bush, and his middle initial – at least one of them – is W. But is this the presidency of George W. Bush, the son or George H.W. Bush, the father? In […]

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Ecumenism is a Four-Letter Word

3/15/2001 – 4:31 pm

“The Catholics hate the Protestants, the Protestants hate the Muslims, the Muslims hate the Hindus and everybody hates the Jews.” Those aren’t my words, they’re Tom Lehrer’s, written many years ago and meant as satire. Like all good satire, there is truth at their core and some three decades later, the barb is still on […]

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