Author Archives: floegel

Charlie Don’t Surf

9/20/2001 – 1:20 pm

So let’s say this is a war, and let’s say Osama bin Laden is the enemy. What does that mean? If we’re going to go to war, we should know our enemy. Lack of intelligence has been cited again and again as a precursor to last week’s tragedy. Osama bin Laden was born in Yemen […]

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Even More Terrible

9/13/2001 – 1:18 pm

Where do we go from here? There’s still so much we don’t know. The most important thing we don’t know is who is behind the suicidal hijackings that caused so much horror and grief Tuesday. We do know this was no Tim McVeigh, no Ted Kaczynski. What happened Tuesday could not have been the work […]

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Bhopal on the Chesapeake

9/6/2001 – 1:16 pm

How would you feel if it got back to you that people were saying you had a “one-track” mind? I suppose you could make the best of it and consider it a compliment. Having a “one-track” mind could mean you are a focused, tenacious person, who sees a job through to the end. Still, you’d […]

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Fossil Fools

8/30/2001 – 1:14 pm

I’m speaking to you from the deck of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior in Salem, Massachusetts, a town famous for burning things. Three hundred years ago it was witches, for the last 40 years it’s been coal – 2,000 tons a day, in an electric power plant owned now by Pacific Gas and Electric. Pacific Gas and […]

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The State of Rights

8/23/2001 – 1:13 pm

Perhaps the oldest American argument divides those who believe in the power of a strong federal government and those who believe in decentralization, with power residing, not in Washington, but in the states. Alexander Hamilton, patron saint of the Republican Party, called for a central government, Thomas Jefferson, patron of the Democrats, wanted power dispersed. […]

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What’s in a Name?

8/16/2001 – 1:11 pm

Have you heard of the Patagonian Toothfish? Probably not. It lives far away, in cold water at the bottom of the world, south of Australia, around Antarctica, near the southern tip of South America, the land called Patagonia, which lends its name to the fish. The Patagonian Toothfish is a carnivore, it eats other fish. […]

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The Real Thing

8/9/2001 – 1:10 pm

Carlo Giuliani, the young man killed by police at the recent Group of Eight meeting in Genoa, has been called the “first person to die in anti-globalization protests,” but this is untrue. Any number of people have already be killed by police in developing nations – Indonesia and India, to name two. It’s easy to […]

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