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Hint: Rumsfeld speaks Fantasy Rumsfeldian.
“So now I’m told that while my illness was recently described as terminal, I can, perhaps, be saved. . . . I’m left with one of those too-simple questions: How much is the extension of a life worth? The answer, we learn from childhood: It depends. It depends on who I am. It depends on the accidental geography of my birth. It depends on how much wealth I have accumulated, how many friends I have, who they are. It depends a lot on dumb luck. . . .”
—”On Being Terminally Ill,” from Typing Love Letters to Create Time, a book I self-published in April 1991
What’s on your pet’s wish list?
I had a terrifying dream the other night: A great, unseen power operated an amusement park. Those who followed instructions…
How the candidates get to work
Pride At Work, a gay labor organization, holds its national convention in Everett.
The city says it will oppose renewal of the historic Blue Moon’s state liquor license.
HOW DID GEORGE W. BUSH manage to transform himself from leader of the free world into the world’s most determined…
TURF: URBAN LIVING
In an otherwise-colorful timber town, Angela Walker and her family are taking a stand against racism.
Musseling in
Before killing off or cutting back HOV lanes, let’s consider another alternative: selling congestion-free driving.
Eliminate Criminals That You Are Pretty Sure Are Guilty of Murder!
KURU Frequently Asked Questions: What is kuru?1 Don’t you have to be a cannibal to get kuru?2 How common is…
Raising hell without the remixes.
Ooh, Halloween, festival of things that go bump in the night—like me rummaging in the back of my closet for…
CANADA GEESE have been much in the news lately, as wildlife officials prepared to adopt WTO tactics to corral and…
No crowds, no lift tickets, and miles of untracked snow.
