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The Color of Fear

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

I just read David Brooks’s column in today’s New York Times: “The Values-Vote Myth”. Usually, I don’t agree with much that Mr. Brooks, a conservative, has to say. But this article gave me pause, and I wrote the following letter to him. Since he probably won’t read it, I thought I’d share it with the […]

Posted by laura 1:21 pm | In Politics | 3 Comments »

Election 2004 Results

Saturday, November 6th, 2004

The National Tragedy has unfolded, but at least this time it is a clear national tragedy. I’m not going to repeat the sentiments of the other 56,350,113 americans who didn’t vote for Bush here (there’s only so many curse words I can think of at the moment!), but I can point you to the website […]

Posted by chris 12:29 pm | In Politics | Comments Off on Election 2004 Results


The meanings of the words 'liberal' and 'conservative' have been so mercilessly abused over the last twenty years that they offer more information about the person who employs them as insults than they do about the person on whose head they fall like stones.
Lewis Lapham