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Columns - Commentary
 Jason Love - Me-Gulls
- As someone who lives near the beach, I feel qualified to make
the following observation: Seagulls are evil. No, you say. Not
seagulls. Yes, seagulls. They dig through your garbage, dump
on everything they see, serve only themselves -- they are the
lawyers of marine vertebrates.
Contrary to myth, seagulls
are not friendly. A seagull's opinion of you is based largely
on whether or not you are holding food, which includes but is
not limited to bread, items that look like bread, and small bread-like
pets. Seagulls are timid individually but grow cocky in numbers
until, worst case, they conspire to seize you Alfred Hitchcock
style. - More...
Tuesday - March 29, 2005
 Jay Ambrose: Misconstruing
media - John Kerry says the media muffed the job in the last
election, or at least that the people who voted against him paid
attention to the wrong media outlets, which is why he lost the
presidential election. There is just one thing wrong with this
contention. It's silly.
He's concerned, for instance,
that large numbers of Americans voting for George W. Bush believed
incorrectly that Saddam Hussein played a part in the 9/11 attacks
and seems to think this is because they were paying too much
attention to a "sub-media" that aimed to entertain,
not inform, and that undercut the valid reporting of mainstream
outlets. - More...
Tuesday - March 29, 2005
Mark Patinkin: Some
job ads to consider - The Labor Department announced that
260,000 jobs were created last month, which got me thinking about
the more interesting new positions our economy is creating.
I came up with a speculative
list and decided to devise my own want ads: - More...
Tuesday - March 29, 2005
Martin Schram: GOP
sees truth about DeLay - Belatedly but undeniably, Washington's
Republicans are beginning to see the light. They see it every
time they look into a mirror - and see the unsmiling, unapologetic
mug of Tom DeLay looking back at them.
The House Majority Hammer has
become the face of Republican Ethics - and it is not a pretty
face. Politically, it is a downright ugly face, and finally,
Republicans are beginning to get it. First on Main Street, then
on K Street and finally, last Monday, on Wall Street, Republicans
have been saying things that show they understand what regular
people understood before them. DeLay has made himself the poster-pol
for Washington's standard ethical double standard: What is OK
for me is attackable for you. Or, as I've said before: Ethics
DeLayed is ethics denied. - More...
Tuesday - March 29, 2005
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