"Jeff Miller" wrote in message
news8lSd.60162$EG1.8840@lakeread04...
guess the weasel's got him... he was a brilliant and humorous
mirror-maker. fear and loathing indeed...

jeezus, i just heard bush mention voltaire in his opening remarks in
brussels. ah...if only ht had maintained the same clarity of vision and
writing as he did with tricky dick...

jeff

To an extent, he did.....his piece on 9/11, written late in that day and
substituted for his regular ESPN online column might be the best synopsis of
the post-9/11 world written. He viewed a reality wherein the extremes of
religion had reached near-maximum power in both the US and the Middle East
and feared for the future.

Tom