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Hey Mr. Turkey, That's a Fancy Way to Walk
Monday, 11 October 2004, 12:36 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Daniel Patrick Welch claims physical pain at watching the second face-off between George Bush and challenger John Kerry. It is some compensation -- though not as much as it should be -- that the incumbent shows himself to be every bit the scary puppet ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Phantom of the Opera
Thursday, 7 October 2004, 11:53 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Daniel Patrick Welch describes the horror of watching the debate between Vice Presidential candidates Dick Cheney and John Edwards, and suggests a career change for the Vice President. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Bad Moon Rising
Monday, 20 September 2004, 10:24 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
So what's a thinking American to do? Metaphors from Alice in Wonderland don' t even cut it any more. Bizarro World is too comical, and ''Beam me up, Scotty..'' too hopeful. At least the good men and women of the Enterprise had somewhere to beam to. Alas, ... More >>
Parade of Nations, Parade of Ignorance
Monday, 16 August 2004, 3:17 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
The author tells of his infatuation with the Olympic games from early childhood--a spell unfortunately broken by ruminating on current events, US policy, and the mind-numbing chatter of American talking head celebrity commentators. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Empty Platform, Empty Town
Friday, 6 August 2004, 3:03 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
The hype and hysteria reached even the sleepy North Shore of Boston. In the weeks leading up to the summer's seminal event in The Big City, local police chiefs were predicting endless commutes and near-constant gridlock. More >>
Bring Me the Head of Silvino Herrera
Thursday, 15 July 2004, 4:07 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
They behead -- we do it with smart bombs. There is, of course, an ugly truth to this recently minted axiom: the horror of state terrorism is that the overwhelming machinery of death in the hands of all-powerful governments far outweighs individual atrocities ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Happy Independence Day Daddy
Wednesday, 30 June 2004, 9:31 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
(to the tune of America the Beautiful) in honor of the US 'handover' of Iraq --to George's Dad's oil buddies! Independence Day, 2004 More >>
Good for Business, Bad for the People
Monday, 28 June 2004, 12:07 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
It's funny. I'd seen all this stuff before -- I mean it isn't as if there was anything really new here for anyone who's been paying attention for the past few years. And yet, I cried. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Impeach the SOB
Wednesday, 19 May 2004, 12:46 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
It's time to stop beating around this Bush and start beating up on him -- but good. There is no set of humanitarian or democratic principles by which this administration would not have been removed in any sane society. More >>
No Apology Necessary - Off to the Hague!
Thursday, 13 May 2004, 11:37 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
As we watch the horror unfolding before our eyes like a giant time-delayed broadcast, a deeper horror should also be setting in. More >>
Daniel Welch: When Good Men Don't Do Nothing
Wednesday, 31 March 2004, 10:45 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Perhaps, after all these years, Edmund Burke may have got it wrong: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is not, as the wise Englishman once opined, for good men to do nothing. More >>
D. P. Welch: Happy St. Pat's - A Message Of Hoe
Thursday, 18 March 2004, 1:33 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
I wanted to share a great poem on this special day. I recite it every year to the kids at the school, and I recited it last year at the Poets Against the War event. I think it is supposed to be an apocryphal rendering of rebel leader Robert Emmet's ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: The Wrong Side of History
Monday, 9 February 2004, 10:52 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
We were all lied to. We're used to it. If Westmoreland's body counts and Watergate and Iran Contra and the Savings and Loan and the first Gulf War didn't teach some of us, then I guess some of us were never meant to learn. The fact is that some of ... More >>
Daniel P. Welch: With All Deliberate Stupidity
Monday, 2 February 2004, 12:30 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
The king is dead--long live the king! Okay, so the old lefty saw about it-doesn't-matter-who-gets-elected-they're-all-the-same-anyway might have less punch this time around. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Still Talking
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 3:06 pm | Daniel Patrick Welch
I get a lot of feedback from my columns: the best is probably along the lines of the woman who suggested one of my pieces ''deserved a Pulitzer prize, or some sort of literary award.'' More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Mickey Mouse-ing the Vote
Monday, 15 December 2003, 10:43 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
''I'm Ted Koppel and thisssssssss.... is 'Nightline.''' If you remember that line, or the Saturday Night Live exaggeration of it, then you are old enough to know who Ted Koppel is, and why he might be bored by a debate with too little blood on the ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Love, American Style
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 11:31 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Can the Brits feel the love yet? Exporting democracy, it turns out, means more than just showing unfortunate non-westerners the joys of having someone else write a decent constitution for them. We have now advanced to the point where we can tell even the ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Takes A Whole Lot O' Tryin'
Wednesday, 29 October 2003, 10:29 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
I got a note from a supporter of Dennis Kucinich, expressing shock and disbelief that the Congressman who would be President had dared to turn down a second interview with Chris Matthews. What--the Dean of Hardball dissed by that pipsqueak from Cleveland? ... More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: The Fire This Time
Thursday, 16 October 2003, 11:27 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
Kucinich may be the only guy who can win this [US Presidential] election. Sounds far-fetched, right? What the Brits would call Loony Left delusional thinking. More >>
Daniel Patrick Welch: Stay In Bed
Thursday, 9 October 2003, 10:58 am | Daniel Patrick Welch
California awoke one morning to find itself governed by a giant cockroach. It's official: we are now living inside a Kafka novel-though even Kafka couldn't have predicted the turn of events that would bring us to this point. More >>
