Author Archives: floegel

Vive la Difference

8/19/1999 – 4:59 pm

Maybe you can file this one under “tomorrow’s news today.” As November turns to December, a story prominently displayed in the news will be the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. In one sense, this is not news. Week in and week out, there is almost always some kind of international trade meeting […]

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Apocalypse Now

8/12/1999 – 5:01 pm

If you can hear me then the world did not come to an end yesterday when the last solar eclipse of the millennium threw a moonshadow across Europe, supposedly conjoining prophecies by Nostradamus and Malachy of Armagh in an event some said would bring the death of the pope or the Mir space station crashing […]

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You Dirty Rat

8/5/1999 – 5:02 pm

Did you hear they’re replacing laboratory rats with lawyers? It seems there are some things rats just won’t do. Okay, that’s a joke, and perhaps not a good one. But sometimes truth is stranger than humor and as it turns out, rats are being replaced, not with lawyers, but with plastic.

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The F Word

7/29/1999 – 5:04 pm

The news from the war zone is that the Air Force’s F-22 fighter was shot out of the sky over Capitol Hill last week by the House of Representatives. Given the peculiar nature of congressional warfare, a fighter that crashed and burned last week may fly again if the House-Senate conference committee chooses to reverse […]

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Vote Early, Vote Often

7/22/1999 – 5:05 pm

I was watching tee vee with a bunch of Democrats on Election Night 1988, the year the original George Bush trounced Michael Dukakis in the polls. All the anchors came on the air before 7 p.m. and announced Mr. Bush would be our next president. “That’s not fair!” screamed the angry Democrats. “The polls on […]

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Building Walls, Drawing Lines

7/15/1999 – 5:07 pm

Much as I hate to admit it, G. Gordon Liddy was right. It was November 1985; Mr. Liddy was in the midst of his endless speaking tour. I was a young reporter. Gordon had dire predictions about everything; most turned out to be paranoid fantasies. When he spoke about the recently-discovered AIDS virus, he said, […]

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Secrets and Lies

7/8/1999 – 5:08 pm

It was the Indiana humorist Kin Hubbard who said, “It’s no sin to be poor – although it may as well be.” Bill Clinton is proving the truth of that statement this week as he visits some of the poorest regions in America. More than halfway through his second term, after surviving dozens of scandals, […]

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