• TSA, bright blue happy and watching you...

• I wonder how many people who would abolish the penny because it "costs more than one cent to make" would also defend the dollar bill.

• Central Oregon drivers go weak in the knees when they see a pedestrian. — October 2011

• Americans, more obeissant in the 21st-century — September 2011

• Re-discovering the extreme, unnerving friendliness of Americans — September 2011

I left the United States in 2000 for a few weeks and returned 11 years later.

• Americans think busy — May 2011

• Eason Jordan sneaks out of CNN. — 14 February 2005

• The American left is ineffective against Bible-loving patriots — December 2004

• Election? Trial by jury. — 30 October 2004

• An unnecessary war for our own time. — October 2004

• If the world were a democracy — 11 September 2004

• "Look how you allocate your time" — from an expert in time-management, ex-president Bill Clinton. — 2 August 2004

• Ronald Reagan was senile. — 12 June 2004

• I remember Ronald Reagan. He pinched education spending and increased motivation to join the military. — 8 June 2004

• The fall of Bush (from a bicycle [as perceived from The Netherlands.]) — 25 May 2004

• Brandon Mayfield released. His mother always said he was no terrorist. — 21 May 2004

• Arrogance works — February 2004

• Success and justification — 17 December 2003

• The voice in the wilderness? — Kerry almost criticizes the war in Iraq. — 19 May 2003

• Total Information Awareness — Spring 2003

• Three journalists killed in one day — Iraq, 9 April 2003

• Volunteer troops; semi-rational anger — April 2003

• Now that I have a computer at home.... some quandary of malaise or something. Against the war. — 18 February 2003

• Laura Bush's poetry symposium attracts an antiwar element — she cancels it. — 3 February 2003

• Business morality — Unrestrained capitalism is not good even for shareholders. — July 2002

• No shit, Sherlock — merging missile defense and missile offense. June 2002

• Tech stock bubble and bust, and my small part in it. — 17 November 2002

• Preemptive strike, the other shoe dropping — 23 September 2002

• The difference a year makes — September 2002

• Twisted — Gingrich, Kissinger, and Billy Graham — October 2001

• Worried about America — Worried about what it will do. — 18 September 2001

• Fear for my country — 16 September 2001