09 Oct 2001

Take This

By John Roman
Dear ones the innocent I'm a bystander who's having a hard time believing what I've been seeing live telecasting the most real life I've ever seen no
09 Oct 2001

Talibananas

By Garry Lee Wright
"Pray tell us, Mullah, what is the latest unacceptable response to our Taliban's belligerent rhetoric and empty offers of negotiation by the evil, decadent, Allah-hating, women-loving American devils and their blonde-haired, suit-and-tie-wearing imperialist European allies and our rainy-day-Muslim turncoat-Arab former friends?" "The microphones are off, Mullah Omar.
02 Oct 2001

Leaving September

By Garry Lee Wright
Along with the shock, grief, and anxiety of the past few weeks, some of us have been feeling, for want of a better word, inadequate. We're not, most of us, very knowledgeable about foreign countries, or their cultures, or how they relate to each other and to the United States.
25 Sep 2001

Against Acting on Rage

By Jeff Ignatius
Over the past two weeks, disbelieving Americans have been asking themselves a variation on the same question: Why do people in other lands hate this country so much? It's not a difficult question, really.
25 Sep 2001

Here in America

By Garry Lee Wright
Wednesday afternoon, just a week and a day after the Tuesday when everything in America changed, I was walking through downtown Chicago, trying to catch a train. I was hurrying to pick up my daughter from school, and it was starting to drizzle.
18 Sep 2001

Taliban and bin Laden Are Not Afghanistan

By No Author
Editor's Note: The two articles that follow have been making the rounds on the Internet. While their exact origins aren't known, the second has been circulating for a long time and was supposedly a radio editorial in Canada.
18 Sep 2001

A Building in New York

By Garry Lee Wright
There will be many thoughtful columns, articles, and books written about the events of September 11, 2001, so the following won't count for much. If you'd prefer to skip it altogether, that's understandable. As I write, it's been less than 24 hours since the first reports.
15 Sep 2001

Bushs Faustian Deal With the Taliban

By Robert Scheer
Published May 22, 2001 in the Los Angeles Times Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you.
11 Sep 2001

Hooked

By Garry Lee Wright
Dear recipient: Thank you for signing up as a new patient - or, if you prefer, client - at our Internet therapy Web site, You'reNotCrazy.com. This service is designed to improve your mental health at a fraction of the cost of conventional treatment - and save you the anxiety and embarrassment of waiting for an appointment in a claustrophobic room with strangers who are talking to themselves or wearing sunglasses indoors.
04 Sep 2001

Back to School 3001

By Garry Lee Wright
"All right, children, settle down. I know it's been a long summer, but we need to get back to work now. Everyone turn down your voice-simulation devices and reconnect your seating modules. And Tommy 2X, stop eating that semiconductor paste.

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