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The Christmas column

Well, here it is, another year has gone by and Christmas is upon us. As a columnist, I am almost required to write a Christmas column. It's a time when media types search out stories...

Supporting our troops

The yellow ribbon on the back of the car read "Support Our Troops." Some of us wonder, what's the need for the ribbons? Who doesn't support our troops? An incident last week, when Secretary of...

25 ways to know you’re on steroids

This guide was written specifically for baseball superstar Barry Bonds, who has indicated that he used substances given to him by his personal trainer without knowing whether they were steroids. If any of these things...

A bitter Swede experience

I'm finding that my Uncle Nunzio gets depressed easily these days. Well, maybe "disappointed" is a better description for it. For instance, he became disappointed for days after his nephew Claudio and his wife took...

25 reasons to give thanks

1. Because I won't have to eat turkey again until next year. 2. That George W. Bush is ineligible to run again. 3. For Republicans, who've taught me that the laws of Darwin don't apply to...

Tearing the mosaic

Life is like a mosaic, a decoration made by inlaying small pieces of variously colored material. We never know what the final picture is going to look like. Some people see a definite pattern that...

Unify this

Let me get this straight. After losing the most important election in my lifetime, we are now all supposed to join hands and support the president. Dubya says he needs us, the disaffected and disenchanted....

Presidential purge

Go ahead, get it all out of your system. I did (well, never all of it), so it's only fair that you get your chance. Hence, the extremely expanded op-ed section that follows includes your...

God wins again

I can't take it anymore. Curt Schilling pushed me over the top. No, it wasn't that he endorsed George W. Bush. He had as much right as the Dixie Chicks to publicly support his favorite...

Fright night

The real fright night in America this fall is not Halloween. It's Election Night. Americans fall asleep at night not afraid that Freddy Krueger will murder them in their sleep, but that somehow he will...
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