Reports and Opinions By Larry Joseph Calloway
I got a flu shot for the most indefensible or reasons, as Bill Clinton would say, because I could. Then I felt a cold paranoia starting in my arm: Was this a third-worlds trick?
How can George Bush agonize over stem-cell research and not the bombing of thousands of innocent civilians?
Forget the catch phrases and imagery. This debate brought out the difference between Bush and Kerry on nuclear proliferation. It’s a down home issue where I come from.
Recuse! Recuse! If the new Republican judicial puritans go any further, the entire judicial system will be disabled. Except for corporate lawyers, of course.
The Telluride Film Festival chose only one of the many new movies about Iraq. It’s a digital film from a digital war. And it’s about soldiers.
Mid-Americans don’t really care where their running shoes are glued together as long as they’re affordable. So does it matter where their books are put together?
Bill Richardson owns the executive, legislative and judicial branches of New Mexico government. Is local government next? The mayor of a dirt-poor border town is making his stand.
Is Justin A. Frank’s frightening Freudian profile, “Bush On The Couch” really psychology? Or is it just couched that way?
Part-time legislatures are no better than full-time legislatures, but if New Mexico is any clue, they are more submissive.
The networks were indulging in their “survivor” show fare, but he was impressive on C-Span, with his FDR way of gesturing with his head and neck, this true survivor who called John Kerry “my bother.”