Author Archives: floegel

Looking for a One-Eyed Man

4/4/2002 – 4:07 pm

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king,” or so the saying goes. Today, the land of the blind is Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and there is no king rising. All are blind with the blood of the innocent, and everyone knows who’s at fault. The other side. The other […]

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War is Heck

3/28/2002 – 4:05 pm

Are we at war? I’ve been searching for an answer to that question for months now, scanning the newspapers, watching tee vee. It should be an easy question, a true/false, multiple choice at most. Instead, I keep coming up with answers that look like they belong in the essay section of a Philosophy mid-term. Let’s […]

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Fog of War

3/21/2002 – 4:03 pm

The phrase “fog of war” has been cropping up in the media with increasing frequency in the past few months. Coined by the Prussian military strategist Karl von Clausewitz, it’s meant to describe the confusion of the battlefield and the difficulty commanders face making coherent decisions in chaotic conditions. The forecast calls for continued fog […]

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Ecclesia Culpa

3/14/2002 – 4:01 pm

We are now more than half way through Lent, the 40-day period of solemnity, abstinence and penitence observed annually by Catholics the world over. Lent this year is more solemn and penitent than usual, due to a lack of abstinence. The American Catholic Church is reeling from wave after wave of disclosures about priests molesting […]

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Bushwhacked

3/7/2002 – 3:58 pm

Presidential candidates, challengers usually, often ask, “Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Why wait four years? This is the age of instant gratification. To help your assessment, let’s consult a list compiled by Dr. David Sprintzen of Long Island University. Dr. Sprintzen looked at the first six months of the […]

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Enron Without End

2/28/2002 – 3:56 pm

Are you still following the Enron scandal? Do you obsessively log onto the Washington Post’s web site every morning and check out the latest he-said, she-said “what did they know and when did they know it” gossip from the previous day’s hearings? Probably not. Few of us do, nor should we have to. We all […]

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Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?

2/21/2002 – 2:06 pm

Did you know smoking pot makes you a better driver? Hard to believe, but getting stoned before you get behind the wheel of a car may be the best thing you can do for highway safety. On January 25, the Burlington Free Press ran an AP story about the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturning […]

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