AUSTIN, Texas -- Whee, here we go, the Ledge is back in session!
And many a village is missing its idiot. The 78th biennial disaster is upon
us, and what glorious fodder to feast upon.
Our peerless leaders are...
Our peerless leaders are...
14 January 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- I just love the fine print in the president's tax-cut plan. I grant you, the overall effect is pretty spectacular, too -- a plan that has almost no stimulative effect but still opens a future of zillion-dollar deficits to...
27 December 2002
It's impossible to adequately sum up any year, and 2002 is probably
more difficult than most to grasp. Bursts of militaristic fervor bracketed
the 12 months, which began in the terrible aftermath of 9/11 with the
United States...
26 December 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- I got out the quote-box for today's column, on the theory that we could all use a little more insight and humor at this season than one measly journalist can provide. I suppose you could call this a cheap column, but I...
24 December 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- Cheap irony and Christmas don't go well together. Christmas and war is another bad combination. But there it is. The only president we've got went down to the Capitol Area Food Bank in Washington, D.C., the other day for a...
23 December 2002
When they realized that Sean Penn had arrived in Baghdad unannounced,
the Western journalists in the city were taken aback. But they ultimately
seemed more surprised by the great distance between media images and the
man they actually...
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