LEARNING FROM THE BIG LOSERS
Bill Bradley's a pretty smart cookie, having graduated from Princeton and all. But even he, it turns out, can make the Vince Lombardi error. In his concession speech after snatching...
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WILLIE HORTON 2000
At a small restaurant near where I work a young cashier was excited, as if she had just seen a rock star. She told another cashier that she had just...
A SCHOOL SHOOTING THAT SHOCKS US AGAIN
As a nation we are shocked by the shooting death of a 6-year-old girl by a 6-year-old boy in a Michigan public school. We are shocked about what is unusual...
AFTER DIALLO: FIXING THE ENTIRE SYSTEM
You don't have to be a protest marcher to be left shocked, pained and feeling more than a little bit empty inside by the acquittal last week of the four...
GORE, BRADLEY GET DOWN IN HARLEM
A political campaign is a series of defining events, the late Republican spin doctor Lee Atwater used to say. So far, the current presidential campaign has been a series of...
THE THORNY SIDE OF LOVE
A certain ill-fated Fox TV show reminds me of the old joke about the guy who asked a woman sitting at a bar if she would sleep with him for...
WHEN REASONABLE DOUBT PERSISTS AGAIN, AND AGAIN, AND . . .
Of all the grand statements made by various candidates during the primary season, Texas Gov. George W. Bush's recent assessment of executions in his state borders on the grandiose. During...
A `PEANUTS’ KID WITHOUT PUNCH LINES
What? No more Charlie Brown? No Lucy? No Snoopy? No Woodstock? Breathes there a soul with heart so dead that he never had a favorite "Peanuts" character? Yes, the death...
SELLING SOUVENIRS OF HATE ON THE WEB
While some people are justifiably alarmed by recent disruptions of Internet commerce by mischievous hackers, others are just as alarmed by what's being sold when the systems are up and...
A NEEDLESS CONFLICT IN FLORIDA
One of the most valuable lessons in office politics goes like this: If you want to convince someone of the worthiness of your idea, convince them that it was really...