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Mencken Connections
March 27, 2002
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News + Opinion
Travel Advisory
Crank Call
Regular readers of this column have emailed and phoned, both to me and to Seven Days, wanting to know "where I am" and what has…
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News + Opinion
Up a (Christmas) Tree
Crank Call
So here it is, the week after Thanksgiving, way up in the hills of Vermont - well, Charlotte. We've "seen some sunshine" recently, as the…
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News + Opinion
Now What?
Crank Call
Oh, frabjous day!" as Lewis Carroll wrote in one of the Alice books. It's all so wonderful you could scream, or do somersaults, or anything…
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News + Opinion
"Weather" Report
Crank Call
Hey, can we talk about the weather this week? I don't mean "global warming," which people talk about a lot - though nothing seems to…
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News + Opinion
Stalking Points
Crank Call
So, what's your guess? Do you think the Republican leadership had former Representative Gerry Studds (D-Mass.) murdered over the weekend? Or do you think Studds…
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News + Opinion
Red-and-Yellow Fever
Crank Call
All politics is local, right? Or do I have that backward? Maybe "all locales are political." It certainly seems like it whenever I drive along…
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News + Opinion
Unhappy Anniversaries
Crank Call
Leave it to me to get to New York City just after the woefully patriotic celebration of the fifth anniversary of 9/11. I've always been…
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News + Opinion
Not-So-Great War
Crank Call
"The terrorists are trying to stop our progress. And we'll ultimately prevail because they're - they have - their ideology is so dark and so…
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