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10 November 2002
Walking back to my car after a rally calling for peace at the Ohio State House on Saturday, I walked past a spot where only a few days earlier a distraught man sat in his van with a gun to his head surrounded by police. From what I...
10 November 2002
"Oh dear father, I shall avenge your failures. I shall put thy name back in the graces of the powerful and wize writing in the black ink that fuels the fires of passion."

Sounds like some Shakespearean Gothic introduction....
06 November 2002
The silver lining: Maybe at last we can finally retire that awful phrase that has been flapping its way through the newspaper headlines since the Clinton campaign of 1992, "It's the economy, stupid."

No, it's...
04 November 2002
About a day before I decided to write this me and a couple friends were having a discussion about the nature of the columbus activist community. A little joke came up between us where we gave our activist community a motto:"Welcome to...
30 October 2002
We live in the "blowback" years. By blowback we mean, what goes around comes around. Unforeseen consequences, or foreseen but ignored. Unleash the mujahiddeen on the Soviets in Afghanistan, and you end up with Osama bin Laden. Blowback...
30 October 2002
The memorial at Kent State University was the perfect place to walk and talk with Paul Wellstone. He was hurting from an old college wrestling injury, and perhaps, though we didn't know it then, from the onset of MS. So he could barely...

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