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I can't decide if this is the toughest column I've ever written, or the easiest. It's screamingly self-indulgent, took a while to write and edit--and it's the last one.
Last week, I had to decide whether to pay tribute to Satan. I'm not entirely unhappy with my decision, and I may have saved my soul.
"And in this corner, weighing in at 800 pounds, the Republican gorilla, Elizabeth Dole!"
I spent nearly eight hours this past week tearing apart my garage door opener. Unexpectedly, the process made me think about humanity's relationship to the physical world.
President George W. Bush will deliver his State of the Union address tonight. It seems appropriate to foreshadow that speech with an outline of how the nation really is doing, without the president's spin.
Fast on the heels of some of President George W. Bush's new tax proposals, which include some of the largest corporate tax cuts in history, and in the midst of calls from the right for deregulation in a host of industries, we're seeing first hand how big business can behave--and it ain't pretty.
U.S. flags seem to be everywhere now, on houses and T-shirts and cars. Some cars even have two or more flags, looking like official government limousines-- except that they're 7-year-old BMWs or 15-year-old Toyotas.
OK, so now to the really pressing issue of our times: Are video games bad, both for kids who don't learn to read and for parents who play them rather than grow up--and thus bad for U.S. culture and the American way of life?
Two recent stories make it clear that free speech is still generating controversy and raising the issue of whether we should place limits on our abilities to speak our minds.
In light of our "war on terror," the news media are showing increasing signs of self-censorship. But why are they doing it--and does this threaten democracy?
The horrible scenes in New York and Washington, D.C., were vicious attacks by unknown terrorists with unclear intents. Appropriate responses are, in many minds, likewise uncertain.
Last Friday night, my wife and I saw the film Gladiator. The movie was a spectacle, a "swords and sandals" Roman-era epic, but it was also replete with civic lessons for today.
Sen. Jesse Helms' announcement that he will not seek a sixth term has generated fawning treatments of him in the "liberal media." But Helms still has more than a year to go in public office before ending a career that has been nasty, brutish, and far too long. We would do well to remember that in excruciating, honest detail.
A.I., the new movie from Stephen Spielberg and Stanley Kubrick, is an imperfect film. But it raises thought-provoking questions about humanity.
I worked on my taxes all weekend, and it convinced me again of one thing: The Congress and president should not repeal the estate tax. And now, we've got more facts to fight it.
Recent actions by the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Congress and President George Bush make clear that those of us who work for a living can look forward to a decrease in our rights and protections.
The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, gave disabled citizens their first chance at legal equal opportunity. Last week, in a narrow-minded, ideology-driven ruling, the Supreme Court deflected that law's application-and the disabled were further disabled.
A new study in Germany may help illuminate one of our looming issues here in the United States. The study was on the children of Nazis, very comparable to our issue-reparations for slavery.
So now we have President George Walker Bush. We saw and heard the campaign ads and the rhetoric labeling him either a great man or a terrible one. So will he live up to his billing, or down to it?
I was reminded recently of the continuing struggle of African Americans to live in a just society, and of why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday observance is so important to each of us.