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The Incident: Probing for Answers to What Ails Us
Friday, 11 March 2005, 12:45 am | Bernard Weiner
The last thing I remember before The Incident was driving by a huge hayfield on a rural Georgia road. Suddenly, there were bright lights above me. I felt a huge suction or magnetic force pulling me up. Then everything went blank. More >>
'Shallow Throat': Slime Report from the Bush World
Tuesday, 22 February 2005, 8:10 pm | Bernard Weiner
''Shallow Throat'' had not contacted me since months before the November 2004 election. I figured that the high-level GOP mole, who formerly had worked at the White House before moving to another agency, was bummed out and needed time to reflect. More >>
Bernard Weiner: Secret Rightwing Agenda Unearthed
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 1:52 pm | Bernard Weiner
This first article, which seems to have been delivered as a speech to a small group of Rightist movers and shakers, was discovered in a 2063 dig in the ruins of what was once the nation's capital, Washington, D.C. On the top of this copy were the ... More >>
Bernard Weiner: Taking On The American Taliban
Wednesday, 9 February 2005, 1:29 pm | Bernard Weiner
The best and worst part about post-op recuperation is the freedom that comes with not being bound to one's normal schedule. Here, confined largely to bed, I doze, read the paper leisurely, meditate, listen to music, surf the web, watch the crapola ... More >>
Post-Inaugural Crimes & The Progressive Posse
Tuesday, 25 January 2005, 12:30 am | Bernard Weiner
OK, so there were no electoral ''anomalies'' in Ohio that the public would accept as smoking-guns, no last-minute miracle that was going to block the coronation. More >>
Bush's Inaugural - After A Spritz Of "B.S. Away!"
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 10:24 am | Bernard Weiner
During the past year, my Silicon Valley inventor-friend twice had demonstrated the efficacy of his amazing ''B.S. Away!'' * spray. He spritzed it on newspaper stories, television monitors, government press conferences -- and, voila!, the inner truth ... More >>
A Quagmire Primer: The Iraq & Vietnam Debacles
Friday, 14 January 2005, 1:00 pm | Bernard Weiner
When analysts refer to the quagmire in Iraq as analogous to Vietnam, we assume that readers are well-acqainted with that earlier war. The truth is that unless you're of a certain age, or are fairly conversant with American history, you're liable to ... More >>
A Modest Proposal: How to Initiate a Stealth Draft
Friday, 14 January 2005, 12:29 am | Bernard Weiner
Look, given our needs in Iraq and Afghanistan and given our agenda in helping freedom unfold across the globe -- starting perhaps with Syria and Iran -- we're going to need more bodies. More >>
Bernard Weiner's Blog: The Hell That Is South Asia
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 1:13 pm | Bernard Weiner
The Asia quake/tsunami disaster hit too close to home: My wife had been in southern Thailand, at the beaches, only a week before the disaster struck; I had been in Southeast Asia a week before that. More >>
Rummy's Gotta Go: But Will Bush Hit Delete?
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 11:31 am | Bernard Weiner
Bush says he won't rid his administration of Donald Rumsfeld, which tells us all we need to know about what the next four years will be like -- IF the election challenges in Ohio and elsewhere don't explode in Dubya's face and he actually is sworn in a ... More >>
A Southeast Asia Diary: Post-Election Travels
Wednesday, 15 December 2004, 12:28 am | Bernard Weiner
In the weeks after November 2, I needed desperately to turn off the political TV that had been my brain for many months, so off I headed to Southeast Asia for some R&R. More >>
Bernard Weiner: Bush Heads for the Bunker
Monday, 22 November 2004, 11:36 am | Bernard Weiner
Any hope that Bush&Co. might tack toward the center is gone. All signs points to more extremism in policy, more police-state tactics at home, more death and destruction abroad. More >>
Explaining the 2004 Election Disaster To Europeans
Wednesday, 17 November 2004, 4:14 pm | Bernard Weiner
Thank you for your long, handwritten letter (don't see many of those these days). Yes, I know that our election and our vote-counting process do not make sense to you citizens of Europe. But I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can -- ... More >>
Rove's Diary: Taking Care Of The Blue People
Tuesday, 9 November 2004, 12:43 am | Bernard Weiner
Dear Diary: It was pathetic -- and so deeeelicious! The liberals hadn't a clue they were about to get their heads handed to them. More >>
Let the Rumpus Begin! - An Oppositional Strategy
Monday, 8 November 2004, 5:43 pm | Bernard Weiner
Let the rumpus begin! We liberals are much better carving each other up than in going after our opponents, and the stilettos are being sharpened for just such in-house butchery as the blame game begins. More >>
Three Faces of Election Eve: Choose Your Future
Tuesday, 2 November 2004, 12:02 am | Bernard Weiner
My Silicon Valley inventor friend -- the same innovator who had showed me his "B.S. Away!" truth spray -- was gently laughing as my jaw dropped. He had just informed me of his machine that could tap into the future. More >>
Bernard Weiner: Seismic Shifts For Both Parties
Tuesday, 26 October 2004, 12:08 am | Bernard Weiner
Don't know about you, but one week before Election Day, I'm cautiously hopeful and nervous as hell. More >>
Reflections On Loss: My Mom, My Country's Soul
Tuesday, 19 October 2004, 11:02 am | Bernard Weiner
My mother died this week, at age 93, and I'm still struggling with the finality of her departure -- even though, in her long slide into terminal Alzheimers, she had been disappearing from us in stages for the past 15 years. More >>
Weiner: Primer For The Undecided - Why It's Kerry
Tuesday, 12 October 2004, 11:02 am | Bernard Weiner
Cousin Frank told me that you two are still undecided about your presidential vote. You're not alone; there are a lot of citizens in the same boat. Many are turned off by the choices we're given. More >>
Two Historical Paths On November 2 - Choose One
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 10:41 am | Bernard Weiner
Virtually everyone agrees that this presidential election is the most important one in the modern era, and will determine for a long time in which direction this country will move. More >>
