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The Old Doctor
"The Best Laid Plans of Mice and Men Gang Aft Aglay"
I'd returned from Portage Des Sioux a little earlier than I planned in order to make an appointment with my cardiologist. I'd been feeling better the last few months and expected a routine checkup and another appointment in six months. In fact, I was planning an early trip up the Illinois to Chicago and back.
Boy did those plans ever "gang aft aglay!
Feb 13, 2007, 22:14
The Old Doctor
Building it from scratch ...
 After a hiatus of close to a year and a half, The Patriot is back, with rejuvenated editor, renewed purpose and newer and more user friendly reading premises. If you enjoy what you read on our pages, please take advantage of the opportunity to instantly share it with your friends by simply clicking on the "email this article" button. If you'd like to copy and paste a printer friendly version, please take advantage of that new feature as well.
Now, this is where I'm also supposed to add, "and we're bigger, faster and better than ever," but I won't do that.
Here's why.
May 14, 2006, 18:41
The Old Doctor
"Need For Speed"
What I'm ticked about this time is a computer game, specifically, "Need for Speed, Most Wanted," and even more specifically, the online version of the game, which has transformed itself from a virtual world where even old men could race on the streets with a reasonable assurance of a clean race into a veritable den of thugs intent not on racing but rather on ruining the experience for those who believe in fair play and clean racing. What's the world coming to when the last athletic refuge of old men is corrupted by nerds intent on cheating?
Aug 9, 2007, 13:00
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Reexamining the Iranian bomb threat ... we've been there before
Time does indeed fly. This article was first published in July, 1998, in the wake of successful nuclear explosions by both India and Pakistan. Despite the gravity of the situation, the political recriminations on both sides were mere spasms in the midst of the "all Monica Lewinsky all the time" news coverage of the period. Given the history that's followed, with Pakistan our closest ally in the area and both countries more or less divorced from their perpetual sword rattling over Kashmir, it is perhaps instructive in the debate over the Iranian bomb.
Perhaps the theory of Mutual Assured Destruction can still work, on a local scale at least. Though the Pakis assuredly still don't love their Indian brothers, and vice versa, in recent years neither side has shown any notion of widespread, deliberate provocation.
And perhaps a nuclear armed Iran, in M.A.D. partnership with a nuclear armed Israel, might go a long way toward easing THAT almost sixty years of perpetual conflict.
Aug 31, 2006, 20:42
The Old Doctor
Should President Bush Be Impeached?
Today's Burning Question
Should President Bush be impeached?
That is, perhaps, the wrong question. The right question would be, "will he be impeached?" That question turns upon the midterm elections in November. Should the democrats do as well as they hope, there should be little doubt that it will happen. Though democrats talk in terms of investigations, they think in terms of impeachment. Polls show that they would find wide support among the public, including more than a little from the closet side of the GOP, congressmen and senators who have been bitten in the butt by constituents angry that the war didn't turn out the way they'd been promised.
May 16, 2006, 22:31
The Old Doctor
Price controls as Bush savior?
 Old folks are not wise because you get smarter as you get older. They are wise because they've heard the same old song and dance so many times that when the band starts playing again they can remember the part of the dance where you fall and bust your butt.
At the moment President Bush is out of step with the American people and needs to do something to win them over. Maybe the answer is price controls. It worked pretty well for Nixon ...
May 16, 2006, 15:59
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Impeaching The Constitution
 Hypocrisy on the Hill
This piece was first published in the October, 1998 issue of United Press International's now defunct Gridlock Magazine.
It is relevant now because impeachment is once again in the air. Though democrats now speak in terms of "restoring fiscal responsibility" and other high minded objectives, what they really want is subpoena power.
And when they get it, Bubba's republican inquisitors will be replaced by Bush inquisitors. What goes 'round comes 'round.
May 16, 2006, 11:03
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