http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/opinion/24dowd.html
(Note, if they ask you to “join”, it’s totally free and allows you to read the NY Times online every day)
All that spare time and he still hasn’t taken up the whistle?
Hey, give the guy a break willya? Bush has got to be rested up and ready in case Cheney croaks and he has to become President.
Roger
But I don’t wish to read it online every day.
He was down in Venezuela deposing Chavez. He needs rest.
You’ll read the NY Times online every day, and like it! Don’t you know there are children in China starving for news? And here you are wasting it! Now, aren’t you ashamed of yourself? 
They’re starving, but not for a newspaper. They’re starving for all the food we waste.
That’s exactly what I was satirizing, Cran. Many of us grew up hearing our parents tell us to clean our plates because there were starving children in China. I just used the old cliche argument and applied it to your reluctance to read the NY Times online. I guess some attempts at humor are doomed to failure. :roll:
With the NYT, if you don’t waqnna register, you can just plug the title (or a sentence of the teaser paragraph) of the article into google news and then click on the link that google gives you–it bypasses the login screen and takes you directly to the article.
Oh. I don’t think I’ve ever heard that, sorry.
I like your latest avatar, by the way. Very Studious. 
Well I don’t know about you, but I’ve been boxing all of mine up and putting it in the garage. Then when those nice boys in white shirts and ties on bicycles (the boys are on bicycles, not the white shirts and ties) come calling, I give it to them to take to the starving Chinese children.
Yes, it’s a hassle and a lot more work than just feeding it to the dog, but sometimes one has to go that extra mile and put forth that little bit of extra effort to assuage one’s conscience.
That, and the dog died five years ago.
But, as a former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on “Meet the Press,” U.S. democracy in 1900 didn’t let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that, “we’d all be thrilled,” he said. “I mean, women’s social rights are not critical to the evolution of democracy.”
- hmmm… I would say that is debatable. :roll:
For political reasons, the president has a history of silence on America’s war dead. But he finally mentioned them on Monday because it became politically useful to use them as a rationale for war - now that all the other rationales have gone up in smoke.
“We owe them something,” he told veterans in Salt Lake City (even though his administration tried to shortchange the veterans agency by $1.5 billion). “We will finish the task that they gave their lives for.”
What twisted logic: with no W.M.D., no link to 9/11 and no democracy, now we have to keep killing people and have our kids killed because so many of our kids have been killed already? Talk about a vicious circle: the killing keeps justifying itself.
Ay-yi-yi… I’m gonna go toss my lunch…
When you want to go to a news site that has registration but don’t want to be troubled by entering all your information (and eating all the consequent spam) go to this site:
and plug in the URL of the news site you are visting. It will return a bogus log-in that you can use. No sweat.
Roger