Happpy new millennium, everybody! And wasn't that an
instructive little episode? All those nutters and even normal citizens
conned by doom-mongers into laying in supplies and weapons.
And didn't the media have a lovely time scaring us...
02 January 2000
Eternal vigilance is the price of ... um, well, guess we
can't say that anymore. We might get sued.
Mostly when we think of threats to free speech, it's government actions or laws we have in mind -- the usual bizarre stuff like veggie...
02 January 2000
You may think a person would bring up the subject of
political rhetoric in our day only to dis it, to mourn the decline of the
once-noble art, to compare the puny babble of our modern pipsqueaks to the
magnificent cadences of Jefferson,...
31 December 1999
In the nation's biggest news weekly, the final headline of 1999 posed a
question that preoccupies many journalists these days: "A Second American
Century?"
Providing some answers on the last page of Time's Dec. 27 issue, pundit...
24 December 1999
The arrival of 2000 reminds us that life is short. Deadening routines
often squander our time, while evasions take unnecessary tolls in human
suffering. But much better possibilities remain.
Every day, a nationwide media barrage...
10 December 1999
When the World Trade Organization summit collapsed in Seattle, major
American news outlets seemed to go into shock. The failure to launch a new
round of global trade talks stunned many journalists who were accustomed to
covering...
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