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Heroism And The Establishment In U.S. Politics
Thursday, 5 February 2004, 12:41 am | Sam Smith
We have two military heroes running for the presidency. More correctly, however, we should say that they were heroes once - for heroism, at least as commonly described, is something that is partly defined by time and place. As Joseph Conrad noted, heroes, ... More >>
Sam Smith: Is That All There Is?
Thursday, 29 January 2004, 3:32 pm | Sam Smith
IF things keep going the way they are, the Democrats will nominate for president a man who was wrong on the Iraq war, wrong on the Bush tax cuts, wrong on the Bush education disaster, and wrong on the Patriot Act. And despite intimations of immutability ... More >>
Sam Smith's Undernews: Cyberbalkanization
Wednesday, 28 January 2004, 12:23 am | Sam Smith
cyberbalkanization (sy.bur.bawl.kuh.ni.ZAY.shun) n. The division of the Internet into narrowly focused groups of like-minded individuals who dislike or have little patience for outsiders. Also: cyber-balkanization. --cyberbalkans n. More >>
Sam Smith: A News Round Up On The Iowa Caucuses
Wednesday, 21 January 2004, 4:08 pm | Sam Smith
HUNCH: John Kerry got a significant boost from his carefully orchestrated presentation of himself as war hero: More >>
Al Gore: Getting Revenge, Making History
Wednesday, 10 December 2003, 2:17 pm | Sam Smith
AL GORE'S ENDORSEMENT of Howard Dean gives the former vice president a chance to revenge the damage Bill Clinton did to his political career. The relationship between Clinton and Gore was always far more complicated that the media understood. More >>
Sam Smith: The Loneliest Mile In Town
Friday, 5 December 2003, 11:48 am | Sam Smith
I figured that if I was going to be part of a vast right wing conspiracy, I better find out something about it. So in the best fashion of post-modern journalism, I decided to take a poll. The sample of fellow Clinton tormentors I came up with consisted ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Non-Political Side Of Politics
Thursday, 27 November 2003, 11:19 am | Sam Smith
A talk to the recent Claim Democracy conference organized by the Center for Voting & Democracy. More >>
Sam Smith: Handling The Bullies
Friday, 21 November 2003, 12:27 am | Sam Smith
For many years now, the Republican right has engaged in a politics of cultural bullying that is the direct descendent of the southern segregationists. It is based on anathematizing a minority in order to solidify its own political base around false assumptions of ... More >>
Sam Smith: An Apology To Younger Americans
Wednesday, 19 November 2003, 1:11 pm | Sam Smith
In observance of the approaching 66th anniversary of my arrival on this planet I would like to apologize to you on behalf of my generation. More >>
Sam Smith: Pickups For Dean Cont'd, & So Forth
Monday, 10 November 2003, 11:17 am | Sam Smith
THE CONTINUED controversy over confederate flags on pickup trucks is a reminder that one of the functions of political campaigns is to take our minds off our problems. It is especially fun when we can argue about symbolism rather than reality because ... More >>
Why Do We Have The War On Some Drugs, Anyway?
Thursday, 29 May 2003, 2:32 pm | Sam Smith
The angry American reaction to Canada's move towards sanity on drug laws raises a question that is seldom asked, let alone studied by academics or the media. Given that the drug war has been a demonstrable failure why does it continue to be so strongly ... More >>
Sam Smith: The Coalition of the Shilling
Tuesday, 6 May 2003, 1:41 pm | Sam Smith
Tired of killing Muslims, we are now trying to teach their survivors some democracy. There are a number of practical problems with this, among them being that the curriculum is in the hands of the most authoritarian, deceitful, anti-democratic, and constitution-wrecking ... More >>
Sam Smith: What Happened In Mosul?
Thursday, 17 April 2003, 2:18 pm | Sam Smith
A number of innocent Iraqis were killed and many more injured by the U.S. troops in Mosul in an incident that has been generally downplayed by the U.S. media. More >>
