[an error occurred while processing this directive] search citypaper.net Also this issue: Summertime Blues-Howard Altman Edisonomics-Jonathan Stein Letters to the Editor May 30-June 5, 2002 loose canon Pearl Hunters by Bruce Schimmel The FBI has been intimidating people who post…
January 1724, 2002 loose canon The Captain Speaking by Bruce Schimmel At Philly International last Sunday morning, you could have witnessed yet another instance that evil is not only banal, but blind and stupid. But, shhh dont say a…
August 1623, 2001 loose canon Wall Warts by Bruce Schimmel Some things are so so much a part of your everyday landscape that you might tend to overlook them. Such is the case with Wall Warts, which I consider to…
February 815, 2001 loose canon A Girl Wrestlers Pain by Bruce Schimmel Why does 17-year-old Jennafer Pavlik love to wrestle? Out of context, her answer sounds shocking. “I love the competition. And, I love the punishment, the pain. I love…
November 29, 2000 slant The Chicken Shit Vote by Bruce Schimmel Part of the reason I am voting for Al Gore is chicken shit, and Im not talking about the campaign rhetoric. The chicken shit Im referring to is the…
July 1320, 2000 loose canon Stump Broke by Bruce Schimmel Stump broke. Theres a piece of rural slang unfamiliar to most urbanites. Unless youve lived with farm animals, and with certain sorts who like to date outside of their species.…
June 2229, 2000 loose canon Horseshoe Crabman by Bruce Schimmel Horseshoe crabs have it lucky. Theyve got Glenn Gauvry on their side. Most people consider the 350-million-year-old creatures to be little more than prehistoric pests. Every spring, when the moon…
February 1017, 2000 loose canon Bush Pops a Smirk by Bruce Schimmel Appearing last week in downstate Delaware, George W. Bush looked fresh, as if his defeat in New Hampshire had been just a mid-winter weekend in Aruba. Maybe it…
December 916, 1999 loose canon Mile-High Shopping by Bruce Schimmel Maybe they figure they can get a few orders processed before air rage hits. When the going gets tough, the tough apparently do go shopping. Why else would airlines now…
July 2229, 1999 loose canon John-John’s Salute by Bruce Schimmel When I heard the news that John Jr.s plane was down, I was gripped bygrief, and shaken by rage. JFK Jr. will never grow any older than that famous image…
