Category Archives: Commentary

Fidel with Oil

8/19/2004 – 9:20 am

I finally saw a Confederate flag bumper sticker I like. It bears a likeness of the stars and bars with a slash through it and said: “You lost. Get over it.” Perhaps now would be a good time to send a few cases of those stickers to the anti-Hugo Chavez crowd still wandering the streets […]

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Lessons of History

8/12/2004 – 11:20 am

The International Herald Tribune Wednesday reported that 300 peacekeeping troops will be sent to the Darfur region of Sudan to protect an African Union fact-finding team. The peacekeeping force will consist of 150 Nigerian troops and – ironically – 150 Rwandan soldiers. It is the 1994 Rwandan massacres, in which one million Hutus and Tutsis […]

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Next Time

8/5/2004 – 9:52 am

My friend Trish, in her mid-20s, is a knitter. She belongs to several knitting circles, all of which are comprised of Gen Xers. Knitting, apparently, is the new trendy thing to do. She never did get around to telling me what it is she knits. Thongs, probably. The conversation was sidetracked when she said knitting […]

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All Relative

7/29/2004 – 9:40 am

During and since the funeral services for the late President Ronald Reagan, there’s been a good deal of discussion about stem cell research. Stem cells are animal cells that have the capacity to generate new cells. There are two types of stem cells – adult and embryonic. Bone marrow contains adult stem cells and bone […]

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Pepsi Needs Coke

7/22/2004 – 2:23 pm

I was flying from Philadelphia to Orlando one evening in May, during the National Hockey League playoffs. As it happened, the Philadelphia Flyers were playing the Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay was getting the better of Philadelphia. The Florida-based flight crew periodically announced game developments, razzing the Philadelphians gently, at least at first. The […]

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Duty Now for the Future

7/15/2004 – 1:48 pm

This week’s news features a British government report that says her majesty’s intelligence service grossly misinterpreted and overstated the threat posed to Middle Eastern stability by Saddam Hussein. There were, they now admit, no weapons of mass destruction and what the analysts thought was evidence of WMDs, well that was just wrong. The report goes […]

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Getting Layed

7/8/2004 – 9:30 am

Reading the news this week, it occurs to me that not only does history repeat itself, but the intervals between repetitions are growing shorter. It was announced Wednesday that an indictment against former Enron CEO Kenneth Lay is due to be unsealed. Mr. Lay – “Kenny Boy” to George W. Bush – was one of […]

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