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Someone emailed me a scathing article written by Steve Lopez in the LA Times. The exact title is listed above if anyone would like to access it at the LA Times site. I'm not familiar with procedures since I almost never post, but don't think we can directly link to the LA Times.I can see plenty to criticize about the article since it is a real hitpiece on Bush, but don't know any of the technicalities of the issue and don't know how to respond. My friend asked me what I had to say about it. According to the article,...

THE patriotic fervor that has Americans waving flags and opening their hearts - and their wallets - to the victims of the World Trade Center attacks, has touched even Barbra Streisand. The singer has removed all her anti-President Bush rants from her website and deleted links to anti-Bush Web sites as well, reports msnbc.com's Jeannette Walls. Earlier this year, Streisand sent a memo to Capitol Hill Democrats calling Bush, "a destructive man" who "stole the election through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and ...

Last Friday I responded to a post regarding a professor at the University of New Mexico who had applauded the bombing of the Pentagon. I wrote a short, to-the-point email to wgordon@unm.edu, the address given. Stupidly I used my real email address. I should know better. Since then I've received three emails with virus attachments. Probably most folks here are too smart to use their regular email address, but, just in case, a word to the wise...

The United Nations relocating to St. Petersburg (not the one in Florida, either)? Say, that's an idea. Quick, phone Bekins. Offer to help pack and load. It's a bit premature, though, for U.N. delegates from all over the world to be filling out forwarding-address cards at the New York post office. Getting the international agency's green-glass global headquarters out of midtown Manhattan is still only an idea ... but then, so was putting it there in the first place. This time the idea comes from Moscow. So it has to be taken seriously. Or not. According to Interfax news service ...