The war experience is unfoldingmuchtooquickly
Maybe it’s merely a measure of the hasty times, where we OJ everything at a breakneck speed, but it seems like we’ve already gone through 10 years of war evolution in 10 days.
With inch by inch coverage and a sense of entitlement [...]
Entries from March 2003
March 30, 2003
The war experience is unfoldingmuchtooqui…
March 29, 2003
The Plot. The Plot. The Plot. The Plot. The…
The Plot. The Plot. The Plot. The Plot.
The Plot. The Plot. The Plot. The Plot.
There are people who see murky conspiracies wherein the New World Order gnomes are slithering around, taking over the earth. Black helicopters and all that. Others see the cabal of the Hildebergers and Trilateral Commission [...]
March 27, 2003
You wonder why they bother to play the season …
You wonder why they bother to play the season
It is an absolute mortal lock that the Red Sox will win the World Series again this year, as they do every century or so, graciously allowing in between other teams to have brief moments in the sun. There is no doubt whatever that the Bostons will [...]
March 26, 2003
How much executing can an executive director execu…
How much executing can an executive director execute?
On a recent public radio broadcast, the wise and cogent executive director of the National Institute for Peace and Security neatly summed up the geo-economic ramifications of a particular aspect of the war in Iraq. They turned next to the sage head of the Foundation for International Energy [...]
March 25, 2003
War futures up 249 points, due to unending supply….
War futures up 249 points, due to unending supply. Market bearish on doom.
Do you understand money people? I guess I don’t.
The stock market is down, or maybe it’s up, because of the latest war news. When the country had the jitters over whether war was coming or not, the market slumped and skittered. When the [...]
March 24, 2003
Why are my cheeks burning? I didn’t do anything. (…
Why are my cheeks burning? I didn’t do anything. (Rats.)
They didn’t give an Oscar for blushing, or for creating blushing.
My candidate would be the unnaturally natural, “Y Tu Momma Tambien.” The film — as distinct from, “movie” — is a powerful social statement illuminating the corrosive abrasions within the conflicting strata of Mexican life, the [...]
March 23, 2003
A good idea. A good idea. Where can I get one…
A good idea. A good idea.
Where can I get one of those doubles? Whatever little there might be to say about Saddam Hussein, he did come up with a good thing, Xeroxing himself.
Of course, being a double for Saddam is not exactly a growth sector anymore. Even beyond the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting [...]
March 21, 2003
The sins of the fathers … A few years ago w…
The sins of the fathers …
A few years ago we took a trip to Southeast Asia, returning to a most glorious place that has held my spirit in its lovely hands over these many, many decades since I first went there as part of that eon’s war. We brought our sons to Bangkok and beyond, [...]
March 20, 2003
Popularity: Time grinds down the peaks, fills the …
Popularity: Time grinds down the peaks, fills the valleys
Presidents. You could wonder whether they are of the same species.
Maybe you know enough about the leaders of other countries over time to compare them but looking back at, say, the past half-century of our own presidents is enough to make you think that not one even [...]
March 18, 2003
Is the orange alert over the threat to one anothe…
Is the orange alert over the threat to one another?
Years ago, I found myself at dinner with a noted antiwar leader from the Vietnam era, a famous man. At one point he wondered, “Why didn’t the parents of soldiers join us? Didn’t they see that we were trying to save their sons from getting killed? [...]
