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WWF shot of Flex and AAP

I was in Sevilla when Harrison Ford was there making some movie. I was followed to my apartment by six women demanding my autograph. Apparently we all look alike to them.

September 17, 2003 Blix Says Iraq Probably Destroyed WMDs By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 8:53 a.m. ET SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix believes that Iraq destroyed most of its weapons of mass destruction 10 years ago, but kept up the appearance that...

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Somehow, I think this will turn out like the clandestine trailers that made perfume or some shit. Or it will refer to a lunch meeting between Saddam's brother and an al qaeda operative. If there's any serious relationship between Sadaam and Osama it's occurred as a result...

Iraq is not secular. NOr, as we are learning, does the population want a secular government. Hussein's government was secular. One more reason the link between Osama and Hussein is so weak. If you haven't noticed, our president associates the two and, in the absence of any convincing evidence...

The really frightening thing is that Ashcroft regards the "drug war" as an extension of the war on terrorism. It is crazy to think they are going to limit the Patriot Act's application to the conventional def of terrroism.

From Confederacy of Dunces: "A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that grew in the ears themselves, stuck out on either side like turn signals indicating two directions at once. Full...

hahahahhahahaha...sweet.

The problem is in part that nationalism and patriotism have been conflated in their meanings. The former motivates conquest and usually has an ethnic dimension which has been starkly evident in the Muslim-bashing following 9/11. Indeed, you could argue that the attack on Iraq takes the form of a...

The Spanish love blue-eyed blond Americans. I rarely keep my clothes on there.

LOL...She is a ubiquitous presence because she represents the opinions of most editors and publishers, though exaggerated of course. I love the way you go "gray" in your usual black-and-white world when it's convenient. In any case, if wingnut posturing sells and gets constantly aired, what is...

I understand your pt. about the GDP. Even Krugman, as liberal as you get, acknowledges that. The point is that, even before the Iraq expenses were finally proposed, the difference in GDP and the deficit was predicted to be reduced from about 4.5 to 1 percent because of the tax cuts, SS...

Your usual over-simplification and reduction to them vs. us. Reagan increased spending but he had the sense to increase taxes, not cut them. The issue isn't the spending per se. What could be more obvious?

I'm not sure what point you are tyring to make relative to the economy -- that it's okay to spend as much as we want and incur as much debt as we want, while slashing taxes, as long as productivity remains high? I don't think economists agree that the deficit is "OK" at all. Even Greenspan is...