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Letters @ 3AM

One of the great lessons of civilizations is that smarts don't count for much in the long run

Column, Dec. 22, 2006

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The film Babel is winning awards, but none of them for Best Comedy. It seems I'm fated to laugh alone.

Column, Dec. 8, 2006

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Democrats may vote for laws like the PATRIOT Act that gut the Bill of Rights, but Democrats do not initiate laws that abolish our freedoms – an important distinction.

Column, Nov. 24, 2006

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Something in me still wants to be a World War I fighter pilot – which is not only nuts, but helps me understand why we will always make war

Column, Nov. 10, 2006

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Republican stewardship of our government has miserably failed. Polls show that Americans finally realize this, but we don't know if that will translate into votes.

Column, Oct. 27, 2006

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On September 28, key rights guaranteed by our Constitution, plus the central tenet of the Magna Carta, were nullified by an act of Congress – specifically, the Military Commissions Act of 2006

Column, Oct. 13, 2006

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According to a 'USA Today' survey, 30% of all American youth hope to have careers in the arts. Who's been lying to these children?

Column, Sep. 29, 2006

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The greatest sins of newspapers are sins of omission and emphasis. Historical context is usually ignored, and though facts are reported truly, a lack of context can make the facts lie.

Column, Sep. 15, 2006

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Every contributor to a newspaper – not least, the letter-writers and ad designers – creates an artifact precious to history

Column, Sep. 1, 2006

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To blame disasters like the Twin Towers and New Orleans on a few perpetrators is to ignore the greater disasters that are the foundation upon which the developed world lives: our attempts to hold on to an unsustainable way of life

Column, Aug. 18, 2006

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The greatest danger to Israel, in the long term, is its dependence on the United States

Column, Aug. 4, 2006

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Ban what you please, although the current campaign against secondhand smoke will not prevent the 21st-century universe from killing us. It merely provides the illusion of safety.

Column, Jul. 21, 2006

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The pattern repeats across the country. Talk tough against immigrants for the redneck vote, then stop any anti-immigrant operation that costs businesses money – which means all of 'em.

Column, Jul. 7, 2006

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On this drive, the universe condensed into one word: invitation.

Column, Jun. 23, 2006

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The history of Mary Magdalene is more mysterious than any pulp yarn

Column, Jun. 9, 2006

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The federal government benefits from undocumented workers, therefore something is owed those workers in return: justice

Column, May. 26, 2006

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Apart from the boycott, and separate from it, the theme of May 1 was, over and over: Register and vote.

Column, May. 12, 2006

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Three fronts of transformative change in U.S. society: the allowance of Christian proselytizing in the U.S. Air Force Academy, Halliburton's receipt of government contracts to build detention centers for Homeland Security, and the rise of the Latino electorate

Column, Apr. 28, 2006

Letters at 3AM: Effete!

It's never too late to see yourself as you are

Column, Apr. 14, 2006

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No matter if it's an unknown young singer like 17-year-old Sahara Smith in a little club on South Lamar (the "unknown" part won't last long in her case), no matter if it's in the room of an unknown poet destined to remain unknown, no matter – there are acts of creation, however desperate, that cannot be stopped.

Column, Mar. 31, 2006

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Bob Dylan says he doesn't know how a guy like him came out of a place like Hibbing. He's been saying things like that for 40 years and I don't know a rock critic who doesn't take him at his word. But I also don't know a rock critic who's been to Hibbing. I wanted to see for myself.

Column, Mar. 17, 2006

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When we say, "This is Nature, and this is not," we're just picking and choosing according to our ideologies, desires, and needs – in other words, a power play to make life behave as we wish. That it never does is life's answer to our machinations.

Column, Mar. 3, 2006

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Our national self-doubt and self-conflict are nothing new, but what is new, in the last 40 years or so, is a state of confused and conflicted values. It is the signature of our era that we live in a world so unstable that its limits may be tested merely by a bumper sticker.

Column, Feb. 17, 2006

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Unless my transmission conks out in a place like Bossier City, a guy like me hasn't much chance to hear out a guy like Virgil

Column, Feb. 3, 2006

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Silence is not an option, if our Constitution is ever again to rise from the paper on which it was written

Column, Jan. 20, 2006

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The president and his people have broken the laws governing warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and furthermore, lied about it, repeatedly and knowingly

Column, Jan. 6, 2006