Author Archives: floegel

Pro-Criminal

1/18/2001 – 4:15 pm

The president, Republicans keep saying, should have the right to pick a cabinet whose members reflect his views. In the case of George W. Bush, perhaps we should amend the axiom to say a president should have the right to pick a cabinet whose members reflect the views of the people who financed his election. […]

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Search and Destroy

1/11/2001 – 4:13 pm

The prospective Bush administration is off to a blazing start, but the heat and light this week are generated by the Linda Chavez nomination going down in flames. At what was probably the last press conference of her political career, the now-defunct nominee for labor secretary portrayed herself as a victim of head-hunting politics, predicting […]

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Cleaning Up The Mess

1/4/2001 – 4:11 pm

Let’s get back to work, shall we? The administration is turning over in less than three weeks, President Clinton is still groping for a legacy and he’s turning to ecumenism for help. Southern Baptist Clinton is throwing a Hail Mary pass and he’s hoping a Muslim and Jew will catch it. If Bill gets a […]

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Why Not 2K?

12/28/2000 – 12:34 pm

A year ago we were all worried about the new millennium. It wasn’t exciting enough to pass from one century and one millennium to the next. We needed the threat of calamity to goad our adrenaline glands into giving us a little bump. Fundamentalists looked for a second coming, or failing that, at least an […]

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More Light

12/21/2000 – 12:32 pm

Happy Solstice. The northern hemisphere reached its ultimate inclination away from the sun at 8:37 this morning, eastern standard time, making this the shortest day of the year. In northern Vermont, that means we enjoy about nine hours of daylight, and even that is obscured by clouds. Commemorating the solstice is among the oldest of […]

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Suspicious Minds

12/14/2000 – 3:55 pm

I don’t have much to say this week. Along with the rest of the country, the post-presidential election skirmishing pummeled me into stunned silence. Anything I might say has been said already – two or three times, probably, first in an attorney’s brief, then on a C-SPAN roundtable and finally as a joke from Letterman […]

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The Undigested Life

12/7/2000 – 12:28 pm

The yuppies are starving, and there’s nothing you can do about it. Isn’t that a pleasant thought for the holiday season? One of the newest trends to emerge from the desolate plains where science and culture meet is the calorie-restricted diet. If you thought your friends on the Zone diet were insufferable, wait ‘til you […]

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