Category Archives: Commentary

Dewey Defeats Who?

11/9/2000 – 12:15 pm

Hello, I’m Mark Floegel for WebActive, speaking to you today from pundit purgatory. As I speak these words, it is still not known who won the presidential election. As you hear these words, the outcome may still be in doubt. A month ago, I stuck my neck out and made several predictions about this election. […]

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Render Unto Caesar

11/2/2000 – 12:12 pm

The political season is old and stale and even the candidates are getting tired of hearing the same old lines and they’re groping for something else to say. Last week, Ruth Dwyer, the right-wing Republican who’s running for governor in Vermont, was railing against the state’s civil union law, the one that allows lesbians and […]

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Barred in Boston

10/26/2000 – 12:09 pm

The presidential debates are over, but questions they raised linger in the air. Was Al Gore too strident? Was George W. in over his head? What I want to know is, why was Ralph Nader locked out? I don’t just mean why was he not given a chance to stand at the podium and contest […]

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The Need to Stop Killing

10/19/2000 – 11:56 am

I’ve been reading classic Greek literature lately, trying to improve myself. So far, I’ve covered the cycle of stories around the Trojan War – the Iliad, the Odyssey, the Orestia and the Aeneid. I read some of these stories when I was young. I remembered them as being about heroes and battles; extraordinary feats of […]

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Dewey Defeats Truman

10/12/2000 – 11:46 am

According to political legend, Lyndon Baines Johnson, when in the depths of one of his Texas campaigns for the U.S. Senate, instructed his staff to spread a rumor that his opponent was, ah, “overly familiar” with pigs. “We’ll never prove that,” someone objected. “I don’t wanna prove it,” LBJ thundered. “I wanna hear that SOB […]

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Few Good Men

10/5/2000 – 11:43 am

The military, it is said, is always preparing to fight the last war. That’s particularly true today, when the last war was a war and the current war is a police action. A few weeks ago, the Pentagon issued a report on the conduct of American troops in Kosovo. The report is the result of […]

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Not a Sport

9/28/2000 – 11:41 am

Are the Olympics not over yet? Can I locate the grave of P.T. Barnum and crush some sour grapes on his headstone? It was Mr. Barnum who said no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. He was right, too. Viewership of the games from Sydney is off, but everyone blames […]

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