Articles of Interest

(personal favorite)
The Value of the Outsider - Anna Quindlen (Newsweek 10/24/05 People on the inside of government and corporations just can't really be objective about situations they are in the middle of)

On K Street Conservatism - George Will (Newsweek 10/17/05 Conservatives are not supposed to be cuddly. They are supposed to be competent, and to understand the scarcity of everything.)

Meet the Fakers - Nicholas D Kristof (New York Times 9/13/05)

Bookish Behavior - Clayton Neuman (Time Magazine 10/16/05 on how some schoolbooks around the world are tackling the challenge of showing all sides of complex issues. Now that's what I'm talkin' about!)

Defending The Indefensible - George Will (Washington Post 10/23/05 on Harriet Miers The title says it, & nobody seems too neutral on this subject. Can't wait to watch the foolishness leading to the outcome. How can the country do this process more sensibly?)

Tom DeLay's House of Shame Jonathan Alter (Newsweek 10/10/05 It just makes me sadder and more frustrated to learn how politics just doesn't seem to be about a bunch of intelligent, dedicated people earnestly trying to do what is best for the country. Yeah, right. Too bad I inhaled or maybe I'd run for something.)

A City of Lies - Scott Spencer (Rolling Stone 10/6/05 about racism and inequality in New Orleans.
Is it naive to think this shouldn't be happening in America in the 21st Century?)

Madame Justice David Frum (National Review Online 10/05)

Bush Plays Delicate Defense Game As Many Conservatives Rebel Joe Gandelman (The Moderate Voice 10/05 about the Choice of Harriet Miers for Supreme Court Justice)

Speak Up America! Sheehan has spent her sympathy  Ed Koch (Jewish World Review 9/05)

Leak: Draft of Bush Answer to Cindy Sheehan  Scott Ott (Scrappleface 8/05)

Enivronmentalism as Religion - Michael Chricton (Commonwealth Club, SF 9/05 A long speech, but a lot of what this site is intended to be about.

The Storm That Ate The GOP: Who will pity the soulless Republican Party now that Katrina is mauling their regime? Mark Morford (SFGate.com 9/05)

Four Amendments and a Funeral Matt Taibbi (from Rolling Stone 8/05. This story about how bills move through the legislative process will make you scratch your head about elected officials.)