We have met the enemy and he is our own paranoia

The TV behind the counter at the diner showed the remains of a white double truck trailer burning on the side of an Interstate near St. Louis. “Yeah,” said the…

Sex and the single college coed

Meghan Bainum is a dark-haired, attractive coed and aspiring journalist at the University of Kansas. Like most journalism students, she works for the campus newspaper, The University Daily Kansan, and…

A happy, belated, birthday wish to my mistress

Damn, I missed her birthday again! …

Be relieved, but also be wary

The waitress pouring coffee smiled and said: “Did ya hear? They caught the sniper.”…

A do-nothing Congress goes home

Congress got the hell out of Dodge last week, leaving behind an embarrassing amount of unfinished business.…

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends

It’s official. The Washington-area sniper story is now a full-fledged circus.…

A disturbing rush to judgment

Sooner or later, American paranoia about terrorists had to bring the conspiracy theorists out of the closet to claim the sniper who has killed nine ordinary people in the Washington…

Land of the free and home of the afraid

The police tape is gone and life is returning, as much as possible, to normal at Seven Corners Shopping Center in Falls Church, Virginia. As normal as can be when…

It is balloon!

Photo by Doug Thompson

Memo to a coward

You hide in the bushes, concealed from public view, plotting your heinous crimes.Perhaps you see yourself as a sniper in wartime, waiting patiently to take the one…