January 27, 2005

New to the Site? The American Digest Reader: A Short Selection

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED in reading some essays posted here over the years, I've got a little list here just for you. Just click ....

Spirit

  • The Name in the Stone
  • On Advent: "We Are All Lying in the Mud, but Some of Us Are Looking at the Stars"
  • Things Invisible to See
  • The Passion of the Pope
  • The Wind In The Heights
  • The Arrival
  • Free Prayers at the Beach
  • Small Fires on the Deep
  • Sunday Meditation: The Star
  • Love Gone Missing
  • While You Were Out
  • The Wedding Vows
  • The Creche By The Side of the Road

    Myths and Texts

  • He Wasn't In His Right Mind
  • Mr. Wonderful's Bad Day
  • Both Sides Now
  • My Mother at Ninety
  • Never Happy
  • Delete "Hook." Insert "Heart"
  • Laguna Dawn

    The War

  • The Sacrifice and the Reckoning: Sleepwalking
  • The Sacrifice and the Reckoning: The Event
  • What It Would Take -- A Simple Scenario
  • OUT? MAYBE IN 20 YEARS: Our Military Bases in Iraq Are Essential
  • Notes Made on 11 September 2001
  • RULES? IN A KNIFE FIGHT?: Redrafting the Rules of Engagement in the First Terrorist War
  • Michael Yon: Iraq's Ernie Pyle
  • Nukes South of the Border Will Do, Thank You
  • Yes, Virginia, There WILL Be a Draft
  • Invitation to the Beheading of an American Jew
  • The War of Two Religions
  • Pieta for the 41st Photograph

    View from the Beach

  • The One and the Many
  • The Penguin Movie for Guys
  • The Man Who Carried the Dark Lantern
  • The Man Who Loved Not Wisely But At Least Twice
  • Visit to an Old Friend
  • Thoughts Between Waking, Showering, Shaving and Sleeping
  • The Go-Bag
  • The Pumpkin
  • Tom Mandel: Ten Years Gone
  • The Daughter That Disappeared
  • The Day We Killed John Lennon
  • The Age of Miracles and Wonders and Bunless Whoppers
  • Pre-Owned Jeans
  • Landslide in Laguna: There Goes the Neighborhood
  • Love Gone Missing
  • Intelligence
  • The Magic of Childhood
  • The Fortune Teller in October 2000
  • Something to See
  • Thom Gunn 1929-2004

    America

  • Fear of Fritterware: The Nightmare Before Christmas
  • Rubber Knives to Gun Fights
  • The Hive and the Town
  • The Cowgirl and the Four Pound Steak
  • The Pleasures of Merely Circulating
  • The Brand Extension Blight
  • I'm Sorry
  • Kids Today
  • Coin of the PC Realm
  • On American Liberty and Destiny
  • Higher Education and the Holy Cookie
  • The "Not Insane" To-Do List
  • Road Tales: Where the Buffalo Roam
  • Mars: Man, You Gotta Go
  • Cruising Off Baja
  • School's Out
  • The Fun of Flying
  • The "Brights:" Smug, Self-satisfied and Stupid
  • The Most Innovative Novel by a Best-Selling American Author Is Not Available in English
  • The Origin and Spite of the Word-Using Species
  • The Red Hot Halo: Scoring a Copy of "2"
  • Bride of Frequently Answered Questions
  • The Greatest Show Off Earth
  • The Parent Trap
  • The Legacy of the Long Peace
  • The Democratic Candidate Cartoon Laws of Motion
  • God's Back and He's Not Pleased
  • On First Looking Out of NASA's Rover
  • The Deluge

    The Media (Old and in the Way, or Brand Spanking New and Confused)

  • Building the Perfect Beast: What Is to Be Done in the Blogosphere
  • The Dead Imagination of the New York Times
  • The Toolbar Times
  • "A New Birth of Freedom:" Why Bleats and Blogs Matter
  • Earth to Bloggers: Seek Professional Help
  • The Moose is Back at the New York Times
  • West Wing Dot Gov: The White House Blogger
  • Brain Jazz Across the Online Decades
  • Blogger's Head Explodes
  • The Fifth Estate's Agenda: No, We Don't Know There's A War On
  • The Koinonia of Blogdom
  • In Coldest Type: Crack Addiction in American Publishing
  • Fear of Instalinking
  • Make that "Goofy's Quarterly"
  • THE HORROR, THE HORROR
  • Behind the Scenes at New York Times Headline Meetings
  • No More Letters to the Editor
  • The Law of the Blogger
  • Pix and Fonts Newspapers Won't Make It
  • Hunter Thompson: What A Man! Yeah, Right.
  • Maureen Dowd: The Jimmy Olson of the New York Times
  • The Sunday New York Times Lite
  • Let Us Now Praise Remarkable Bloggers - 1
  • NYet Times Anonymous: The Twelve Steps
  • THE PLAGUE OF BIG MEDIA'S INCREASING ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER:

    Poetry

  • Last Light Above the Seine
  • Sunday Reflection
  • Into the Silence
  • The River Guide
  • The Silhouettes
  • Only By Fire is Fascism Finished
  • The Smoke
  • The Uptown Date
  • In the Town Hall's Graveyard
  • Hanukkah Candles on Christmas Eve
  • The Interface, for my father
  • The Wheat Field
  • Closing Time
  • Intelligent Design

    Politics

  • Patience Please: An American Empire Takes Time
  • On the Most Ancient Virus to Infect the Soul
  • Christians of Convenience
  • Improving the Pledge of Allegiance
  • How to Rebuild New Orleans in One Year, With Money Left Over
  • Radical Roots: Friendly Enemies from My Back Pages
  • The New Line of Choice: "Saying it's wrong makes it right."
  • ARNOLD:The Re-Makes
  • The Subconscious Yearning for American Defeat
  • Speaking of Using the Word "Traitor" as a Functional Part of the Conversation
  • Condition Orange Forever?
  • On Abortion in America
  • Killing Two of Your Three Triplets to Keep Your Lifestyle
  • Red Like Ward = Black Like Me
  • Liberalosis: A Disease Killing and Crippling Millions of Our Fellow Americans
  • Small Moves
  • I Am the Very Model of A Modern Kerry Democrat
  • How to Destroy the Democratic Party in One Brief Presidential Election
  • The Meeting
  • Why is the Patriotism of the Left Off the Table?
  • Small Moves, the Spirit of America, and Doing What You Can
  • AIN'T IT COOL?: A Tale of Two Cultures
  • CANADIAN ARMY FORTIFIES BORDER TO REPEL REFUGEE ONSLAUGHT FROM THE SOUTH
  • Bozo Speaks: Mouth. Foot. Maher.
  • Stop the Spaminsanity
  • "I will vote always for best, always:" Conversations with Paul
  • Yearning for the Mud: The Kerry-Heinz Ticket and the Psychotic Party
  • The Killing Father of Two
  • Fifty Reasons Why I'm Voting for Bush
  • The Naked and the Senile Dementia
  • The Political Art and the Art of Politics
  • Magic Moments in Domestic Policy
  • Speaking of Using the Word "Traitor" as a Functional Part of the Conversation
  • The Absolute Moral Degeneracy of Cindy Sheehan
  • Demo-Demento-Depression : Just Say "Medicate!"
  • Yes, Down My Pants. Oh, Like You Haven't?
  • They Hate the Church More Than They Hate Life Itself
  • The Degeneration of the Democratic Party

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