Category Archives: Commentary

Smackdown! Hilton vs. Yoo!

4/3/2008 – 9:37 am

Let us now bash Paris Hilton. Why not? She’s a vapid, entitled blemish on the face of American culture. Born to wealth and privilege, Ms. Hilton is “famous for being famous,” attracting America’s attention with “reality” shows in which she and ex-friend Nicole Richie attempt, and fail with “hilarious” results, to live like ordinary Americans. […]

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Blood and Treasure

3/27/2008 – 8:49 am

Less than a week later, Adrienne and I headed back out for the vigil. The half-dozen senior citizens and nuns who have been there every day for nearly seven years were happy to have us back, even if it meant one of our infrequent thresholds – in this case, the 4,000th American death in Iraq […]

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Waiting for Godot

3/20/2008 – 9:53 am

Because there’s an energy crisis, we have gone to daylight savings earlier in the year. Because we’ve gone to daylight savings earlier in the year, it was still light when Adrienne and I arrived at the sidewalk in front of the Unitarian Church just before 5 p.m. for the vigil. How many times have we […]

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The Toilet Brush

3/13/2008 – 11:13 am

To Eliot Spitzer, the soon to be ex-governor of New York, I offer this thought: Consider the toilet brush. Mr. Spitzer, a millionaire and a millionaire’s son, may be unfamiliar with this useful tool. Contemporary toilet brushes are usually made of plastic, but I’m sure some high-end and eco-friendly hardware stores carry models with wooden […]

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Bye, American

3/6/2008 – 10:33 am

You might have heard the story about General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. At a recent closed-door meeting with reporters, the 76-year-old, who’s in charge of product development said he thinks global warming theory is “a total crock of shit” and that hybrid cars “make no economic sense.” As you might expect, the people who […]

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What Might Have Been

2/28/2008 – 8:55 am

Years ago, when the Earth was young, a talk show host in Ohio named Phil Donahue managed to get famous consumer advocate Ralph Nader to appear on his show. Mr. Nader liked the young man’s style of interview and audience participation and told Mr. Donahue he would return to the show if invited. Over the […]

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Missile Envy

2/21/2008 – 10:45 am

Last night, a Standard Missile 3 rocket, launched from the USN Lake Erie, an Aegis-class cruiser in the Pacific Ocean west of Hawaii, struck a disabled spy satellite 150 miles over Earth. It is hoped the missile destroyed the satellite (confirmation of a “kill” will be made later today) and saved the planet from peril. […]

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