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— even if sincerely offered —- have little or
no chance of becoming reality. On Tuesday,
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Congress of his six-year presidency to be con- VNIACTEI-OPNRAELS ISDAELNETS OCFO ONARTDIIONNAATLO Rr ar Ses
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little to do with their blurry vision and much
to do with the nation’s growing disillusion-
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Karl “Svengali” Rove framed him. And Senate CLASSIFIED DISPLAY ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE
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defense hard-liner John Warner of Virginia SENIOR GRAPHIC
joining a resolution that calls the increase of GRAPHIC ARTIST
troops in Iraq harebrained, albeit in very po- CIRCULATION
lite language. All things considered, the pros-
pects for the Texas dude rancher look grim. CIRCULATION ASSISTANT
Bush pulled out all the stops when he OPERATIONS
strode before Congress. He oozed snake-oil VICE-PRESIDENT OF OPERATIONS
charm as he congratulated House Speaker NIET TMWAONARGKE RM ANAG)O!) ER ©
Nancy Pelosi for being the first woman in his- MNSBYIET CRROACLTAEI DOON FACILITIES MANAGER
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gun-slinging strongman into a sensitive guy IT’S GETTING HOT IN HERE Bush can shuck and jive all he wants — his environmental AaS SITRSADTE MMAAARNKNA GaTE Ré T ‘IVE
bent on political cooperation. And his shy- and Iraq policies are alarmingly inadequate. MERCHANDISE
sterism was front and center when he offered
a series of insincere and inadequate pro- CREDIT MANAGER N
environment proposals. tal damage and global warming pose threats of Bush is delusional and increasingly im (CASH ANALYST M4
Anyone doubting the inadequacies of biblical proportions. Bush’s inner Rove always potent. His growing political isolation and CRHEDUIMT/ACONLL ECRTIEONSSO RUEPRRCESEENST ATIVE
Bush’s environmental talk should note that tells him to play to his base, to shore up support irrelevance might be welcome on domestic is-
just hours before he spoke, the heads of 10 among his most faithful. He has been moving sues. But in matters of foreign policy and the
major corporations (including Alcoa, DuPont, in this direction for about two years, longer war in Iraq, he enjoys vast powers. His dicta- CEOXERCPUOTRIAVTEE REECXREUCIUTTIIVNEG MRAECNEAPGTEIRON IST|(: &:
and British Petroleum) urged the adoption of than most people realize. And his tepid em- tor-like tendencies did not spring out of thin RECEPTIONIST KELLY AHEARN
standards far more stringent than Bush's to brace of a green agenda more or less coincides air. Congress for generations set dangerous OFFICES
combat global warming. The chief executives with the point when the issue gained traction precedents by abrogating its authority and re- BOSTON
called for mandatory ceilings on greenhouse- among his most conservative religious follow- sponsibility for policing the president's abil-
gas emissions, something Bush will not ers. Public expectations, however, are outstrip- ity to wage war. But once any president has
consider. It is a sad day for Republicans when ping — have outstripped — Bush's actions. troops on the ground in a foreign land, the
a rabid, pro-business president like Bush is up- If Bush is well behind the curve on envi- ability to check his will, to reverse his course, W VERIFIED
staged and outflanked by the core of his GOP ronmental issues and desires, he’s danger- to make things right — to the extent to which
constituency. It appears that it is beginning ously behind the eight ball when it comes to they can be righted without disaster of some MANUSCRIPTS
to dawn on at least some big businesses that if Iraq, to which he devoted almost half of his sort — is limited.
the planet shrivels up and dies, there will be State of the Union address. He shucked. He Our president seems hell-bent on stretch-
nobody to whom they can sell their goods and jived. He offered the devious milquetoast sop ing those limits even further than Lyndon
services. This belated fit of enlightened self- of convening a bipartisan council on the war Johnson and Richard Nixon did in Vietnam. If
interest is, of course, welcome. Too bad Bush on terror. It is not surprising — but it is never- Bush's increase of 21,500 troops in Iraq fails, PRINTED BY
doesn’t seem to understand just how much theless amazing — that Bush still perpetrates as in all probability it sadly and tragically
must be done — and how quickly. the lie that the invasion of Iraq had some- will, the stage will be set for a nasty and divi HTHAEI RMPHAONE NIX eres COMPMRUESNIIDECNAT TIONS GROUP
Bush is less interested in the environment thing to do with attacking the Al Qaeda net- sive confrontation with Congress this fall — if EXECUTIVE EDITOR
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
than he is in tapping into the growing sense work that attacked New York and Washington not earlier. And if the past is any guide, as DIRECTOR OF NEWSPAPER GROUP SALES
among his base ofm ilitantly Christian evan- oann d Sea pntaevmable rv es1s1e la nbde fboroem btehdat . our embassies Bush slides into even further irrelevance, he PMARSMSEE SIPDHWEOEENBNT I XE PMRNIENEIRNWICGST PU|ASP ES T
Warring parties
Regarding your editorial on George W. Bush’s rejiggered Iraq
policy (“Dumb and Dumber,” News and Features, January
12), let us see what our cowardly congressional
representatives do: will they simply hold a few hearings in
an attempt to pacify the masses? Or will they take action
against an administration that makes Nixon’s appear
contrite? The voters no longer believe the lies spewing from
the collective mouth of the present criminal
administration. The question is: what special prosecutor
will show the courage and send out hundreds of subpoenas?
Robert Moore, Esq.
Harmony, Rhode Island
Write us
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Brookline Avenue, 505t to listen to what the me radio? Does she sound de
MA 02215 dia has to say. Why don’t termined? She’s certainly
8e5t9t.e8r2s0@1p hx you take the time to see trying, but she has no lever-
taff writers’ e-mai past your stupidity and age. She can’t do
addresses (e-mmaialiedl ed ot \ette learn something new? anything. Her commit
rclourd e vera iftieclaetp!n e There are more pros than ment to “support the
cons, and it’s great to not troops” is a lot stronger
have to worry about some than her commitment to
razy terrorists ruining stop the war. She’s bank
our country. We will take ing entirely on public opin
them down before they ion, unlike Bush. Plus, her
ao us entire “Democrats rule”
ELIZABETH CARMICHAEL push in Congress is being
overshadowed by the war
She ends up saying lines
like, “It’s important to
understand how powerful
the president is. He’s the
ommander-in-chief,” as
I heard on NPR yesterday
Your article uses the
same tactics that the ad
ministration’s propagan
da organs use Black and
White. Gospel. Obvious
escala ly Bush is completely wrong
wil happen. The and anyone who fails to
most that Democrats will hold to the party line
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approval. The way you de actually have) is foolish The blindness of t
scribe it, one would think The reader is left with no publish articles like this is
indeJrer stand pe that Congress is actually a better understanding of truly dismaying. The Unit of life down the road. In
ike you, peopie who are s power on par with the politics or the current ed States and our way of life stead of insulting those in
rtunity to re far up their own ass they president and that it’s situation. It’s just preach are under attack world charge, come up with con
1eT madness ant see outside of their willing to act that ing to the choir wide, and these sorts of ar structive solutions
BRUCE JOFFE ywn box. Bashing the presi way. Constitutionally, it Please hire someone ticles only contribute to our to the problem. Trouble
dent does nothing but is, but in practice, your who understands politics. destruction. Extremist is, liberals and anti-
make you look like a mo discussion is greatly mis ARIEL STULBERG Muslims are out to kill us administration folks have
America (et al.) is best ron. If you haven't figured leading and take over the world! no constructive solutions.
when governed with rea it out by now, there are tons This whole thing, sad The only way to defeat Only insane ravings.
son, and reason usually of people supporting Bush ly, is an attempt by Bush Who is calling whom them is to stand up to MICHAEL STEELMAN
leads one to somewhere be and the stand he’s taking. to overwhelm the Con dumb? We are still in them. That’s why there
tween the two extremes of People who are open-mind gress and push the results Germany and Japan.Com have been no attacks
left and right. Those who ed realize there are other is of the election into irrele paring the time we have against us on our soil since Dubya is guilty on all
claim the war on terror is a sues besides the fact that a vance. He’s showing been there is almost 9/11. I would love to hear counts, but so are all those
sham are ludicrous. Of lot of troops are in Iraq. If everyone how little it mat “Kerryish.” Anyone who anyone who attacks the war who re-elected him in the
course there is a war waged they didn’t want to be ters that Congress uses Senator Edward on terror or the president face of overwhelming evi-
by terrorists against the there, they wouldn't. Stop changed hands. And he’s Kennedy and some formof come up with a suitable al- dence that the “war on ter-
USA. We have to respond, complaining; you're not the right, too. It’s going to the word “wise” in the ternative plan to defend the ror” isa sham. I can almost
and we should do soina one with your life on the work, same sentence should re- United States and our way forgive those who voted for
reasonable fashion. line. I want to bet that you You're crazy to talk frain from calling people of life, other than run and him the first time, but not
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JANUARY 22 is boob did a perfectly fine job?
25 Co-sponsored by 15 other assembly
members (including senators Edward
Sugustus and Pat Jehlen), Rushing’s
bill was prompted by Governor Mitt
Rommney’s successful effort to enforce a
1913 law barring people who cannot le-
DAYS, AS OF JANUARY 22, TILL gally marry in their own states from
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marrying here. Originally intended
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to prevent out-of-state interracial
“THEY’RE TRYING TO couples from getting hitched in Mas-
SET ME UP. THEY WANT sachusetts and long since ignored,
the law was deployed as ammunition
ME TO BE THE SACRIFI-
in Romney’s fight against same-sex
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marriage. When asked to rule on the
NOT BE SACRIFICED governor’s enforcement of the 1913
SO KARL ROVE CAN BE law, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court
PROTECTED.” — which ruled in Goodridgev .D epartment
ofPu blic Health that banning same-sex
Theodore V. Wells jr., defense attorney for Marriage was unconstitutional in 2003
|. Lewis “Scooter” Libby,” recounting a conversation Finally, commies, blasphemers, and — upheld Romney’s effort to uphold
between Libby and Dick Cheney, in an opening fornicators can relax. A new bill pro- the 1913 law in 2006.
statement for Libby's perjury trial this week posed by State Representative Byron That long-ignored yet now infa-
Rushing (D-South End) aims to repeal mous law is conspicuously absent
archaic Massachusetts General Laws from Rushing’s list. “It’s what hap-
Reality Check
designed to rein in immorality. Long pens when you leave things dormant;
dormant, these laws can be used, they can be resurrected,” Rushing
technically, to throw you in jail for says. “[The 1913 law] would have been
things like providing birth control on this bill before Goodridge. Now, that
to an unmarried woman, cheating law is active, so that repeal is a sepa-
on your spouse, spitting in public, or rate legislative process.”
committing “unnatural and lascivious Rushing hopes that his bill is a first
cts” (think Ramrod, Saturday night, step toward fine-tooth-combing the
dark bathroom stall). Massachusetts General Laws every
“There have been concerns about four to six years, and that undoubtedly
unconstitutional laws on the books; serves a high public service that affects
laws that criminalize activities that everyone. After all, who hasn’t hocked
people don’t think are criminal,” a loogey on a public sidewalk now and
Rushing says, as well as laws that are again?
inactive or contradictory to current Sara Faith Alterman
SsPress legislation. “And some of these laws
For a list of Massachusetts laws Rushing is proposing be
‘A war of words in Washington — further alliterations at eleven.” are just silly.” removed from the books, read this item on thePhoenix.com.
“ABOUT 40 PERCENT OF YOU
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“Second Life for Kids,” even as it’s been reported this month t Wing Conspiracy
the real world old Brian Barrett was shot dead in his truck with
result, purportedly, c a Second Life love triangle smears two Dems
It’s all getting a bit much for Vancouver writer/tect
marketer Darren Barefoot. So last Saturday he launched
at once
When it comes to Second Life (SL), the immersive “metaverse” that’s satire called Ge’ a First Life. “America’s teens, your First Life dream
gotten reams of breathless media coverage over the past six months awaits,” he exhorts. “Hang out at the mall! Embarrass yourself in gym
the Phoenix was among the first: see “Does Your Life Suck?” July 17), class! Get acne! Experiment with mind-altering recreational drugs! The
hard numbers are hard to come by. There are as many as two million First Life world is your oyster.” The mock site offers a helpful FAQ (Are JANUARY 17: Insight, a cor servative m. agazine affi
discrete registrants — SL calls them “residents” — but many of those five senses enough? Why can’t! build a dirigible with my miinedn?e) as the Revere nd Sun! Moon publishes an
were only curious drop-ins, and only a fraction have stuck around. well as some tips on things to do in this“3D analog world where server merican people ready
Philip Rosedale, founder and CEO of Linden Lab, which created Second lag does not exist.” Our favorite: “Fornicate using your actual geni tals educated in a Madrassa
Life, estimates about 10 percent of registered users still log on weekly, It’s not necessarily that he’s against the Second Life concept. After n forthcoming about his Mus
three months after initially signing up all, Barefoot says, “we've been immersing ourselves in fantasy worlds juestion Sen. Hillary Rodham
Plus, those users who do stick around are spending an since the invention of the novel.” He's just sick of the hype bout Senator Barack Obama.’
awful lot of time — and money — in this eldritch oth- the attention from the media and the corporate \w l h information allegedly ob
erworld. Fortune Magazine reports that user hours per suits. It’s also that Barefoot, who's 1ectedt o Senator Clinton,” the
month grew from about 3.5 million in June to 7.5 mil plenty familiar with online article says Obama sp ‘at least four y I ata Muslim
lion in December. And as much as $500,000 changes gaming, thinks Second Life still seminary” in Indonesia that j be linked to Wahabbism,
hands among tens of thousands of has a lot of kinks. “Just a few a fundamentalist strain of I 1. The artialcsol seay s
residents every day. Predictably, weeks ago, I watched a col Obama attends church ir jlaarrlly y aanndd mMaa y actuatlallyly ststiallll bbee
nonresidents in “meat league try to attend an indus a Muslim
space” are noticing. Corpo try event {in SL], and it took her JANUARY 18: The hosts of f x News @ Friends discuss the al
rations like Adidas five minutes just to figure ou legations contained Insight article, t akin z both their
Reebok, Vodafone, and how to sit down.’ validity and their connection to the Clinton campaign
IBM are building vir But he’s also somewhat for granted Steve Doocy What have we heard about
tual stores in Second Life, concerned about the potential for coming out of the madrassa schools in Indonesia This is
in an effort to build real abuse. “If someone is an introvert ige!”’) In addition, Doocy et al. suggest that Oba
world brand awareness. and antisocial and finds that the onest about this aspect of his history
Some companies have only way they can socialize and have a full human exper eisin
even recruited employees the game, then I think that’s fine. But on the other hand, I think
via SL, interviewing them in that most people should balance their life inside a game like that
virtual reality with their real life outside.” age of 1 llegations are also relz
And if it makes some sense Y'know, with the other six and a half billion First Life residenntts New York Post, on Fox's The Big Story, and by CNN tal
that Gnarls Barkley and Bloc who are logged on 24 hours a day Beck
Party would play to virtual fans Mike Miliard JANUARY 21: In the Chicago Sun-Times, conservative col
there, it’s perhaps more surprising Visit getafirstlife.com. umnist Mark Steyn writes that Obama “was raised in an
Indonesian madrassah by radical imams.” Obama will be
welcomed by Democrats who think radical Islam is just
a conservative bogeyman. He adds, “What would more
JUSt VISITING 5 siscos:0 resoundingly confirm that view than ifthe nicest, most
non-bitter, nonpartisan guy in politics turns out to have
SHOUT-OUT graduated from the Sword of the Infidel Slayer grade schc
AO ASSING in Jakarta?”
JANUARY 22: The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz asks
Bill Shine, Fox News senior VP for programming, if his
IIMMY CARTER, FORMER PRESIDENT network is promoting unfounded rumors about Obama
and Clinton. “Some on the left might think that,” Shine
IN TOWN JANUARY 23 TO SIGN HIS BOOK PALESTINE: PEACE NOT APARTHEID replies. “I don’t think anybody should read anything into
that.”
IF YOU WERE PRESIDENT WHAT ARE YOU MOST GRATE- JANUARY 22: The staff of Fox News Friends apologizes,
TODAY WHAT IS THE FIRST FUL FOR? Rosalynn agreeing to sort of, for their January 19 show, noting that both the
ACTION YOU WOULD TAKE? marry me. She said no the first Obama and Clinton camps say the Insight story was
Following the Baker Hamilton time I proposed wrong. * There was a firestorm created over that, so we
recommendations, I would ist want to say that’s the story,” says co-host Brian
start withdrawing the troops WHAT CURRENT PUBLIC FIGURE neade “The Obama camp was upset, so we hope
early ARE YOU MOST EXCITED ABOUT? they’re not now.” “Come back, Senator Obama,” pleads
The conglomerate group of host Cretchen Carlson
WHAT WILL BE THE TOPIC OF Democrats who are running for JANUARY 23: After dispatching international correspon
YOUR NEXT BOOK? It would president, without singling out dent John Vause to Indonesia to visit the Basuki school
either be about the 25th anniver- any one of them CNN concludes that Insight’s claims were false, and posts
sary of The Carter Center, wood this conclusion on its Web site. “I came here to Barack
working, or a short biography HUMMUS... EATEN BY PALES- Obama's elementary school in Jakarta looking for what
about my mother. TINIANS AND ISRAELIS. WHICH some are calling an Islamic madrassa . . . like the ones
VERSION IS TASTIER? When | that teach hate and violence in Pakistan and Afghani
WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE travel to the Middle East, I eat stan,” Vause is quoted as saying. “This school is nothing
SANDWICH? Tomatoes, onion, hummus in a small restaurant like that.”
and cheese. in Bethlehem that gives me the In fact, it actually seems to be a public school — but
best of both worlds. now, of course, the damage is done.
Adam Reilly
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TOUR 2007
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7PM DOORS - BPM SHOW - ALL AGES
READY TO RUMBLE? HBO boxing announcer jim Lampley was arrested last week on felony domestic-violence charges.
THE GHOST OF MARV Lampley, who was released on a driving with a suspended license.
BBZLIVENnNATION.com Each sports season carries a relative $35,000 bond, has lawyered up and is Upon asking to search the car, they
ticketmaster CH/ 617-228-6000 ly small number of sportscaster ar insisting on his innocence. However noticed Joseph reach for a black back
rests, but the ones we do get it are there’s a strange subplot to this sto pack, which gave off the proverbial
usually memorable. Who can forget ry. Apparently the alleged victim strong odor of marijuana.” Cops
Marv Albert, holding his cheesecloth former Miss California named found a little baggie of weed inside,
on his head with one hand and us Candace Sanders — was previously next to a video game. He was released
ing the other to hold a hooker’s involved in a bizarre annulled mar from a county jail and was asked to
COMMUNITy
shoulder in place for a vampire bite? riage with a Jehovah’s Witness. return for a February 5 court date.
SKATING How about Tampa sports dude Al Court papers leaked to the press indi I’m giving Joseph halfa point for
AR Keck pushing his wife into a con cate that Sanders filed for an annul this one; this is about as silly as
crete column in 2005? Or former Bal ment on the grounds that her former weed arrests get.
timore sportscaster Keith Ross Mills husband, Marlon Muller, refused to Meanwhile, onetime Atlanta Fal-
breaking into an elderly cancer suf have “marital sexual relations.” cons star Michael Vick was stopped
KENDALL ferer’s home last summer and boost- Who marries Miss California and at Miami airport security after trying
ing her OxyContin supply? doesn’t sleep with her? What kind of to carry a water bottle with a secret
SQUARE
Steven landoli, sports guy from Miss California marries a celibate Je compartment full of what appeared
KCEN in Texas? He made history in hovah’s Witness? What the hell is up to be illegal drugs. However, it’s re-
2004 by becoming — | think, anyway with California anyway? Thank god cently been announced that Vick will
Outdoor Public the first sportscaster to be Tasered, we live on this side of the world not face charges in the matter. Like
this after he got drunk and refused a I’m giving Lampley a 51 on the Joseph, Vick was nailed by the “pun-
<1 a ala bouncer’s request to leave a bar. Cleve crime scale — 50 for the domestic as gent aroma closely associated with
land sportscaster Chuck Galeti did sault, one for the fact that he shows that of marijuana,” but the tests on
time for a DUI in 'o4. And, moving up up in every boxing movie. the pungent aroma’s source either
the sportscaster food chain, ESPN’s came back unsatisfactory or the cops
Rentals « Lessons Gary Mille was busted for indecency BEDTIME FOR BENGALS decided to let the matter fly.
Corporate Events after urinating out a Cleveland night Aeanwhile, the Cincinnati Bengal Vick gets one point for running
club window in 1997 crime juggernaut rolls on — albeit the West Coast offense poorly, none
T) Kendall/MIT More recently, former sportscaster with silly misdemeanor nonsense forthe drugs. ©
Vincent Marinello was booked and Cornerback Jonathan Joseph was bust
300 Athenaeum St. Cambridge « [phone] placed under house arrest in New Or ed in Kentucky after a car in which he When he's not googling “murderer's
KendallSquare.org leans for suspicion of murdering his was a passenger began weaving all check list” and “pungent aroma,” Matt
wife. Marinello, wore a fake beard over the road. Cops pulled over the fe Taibbi writes for Rolling Stone. He can be
and mustache to the crime and es male driver and discovered she was reached at [email protected].
caped on a bicycle, kept a to-do list in
his FEMA trailer that had checks next
to entries like beard, bicycle, and throw YEARLY LEADER BOARD
M: Pizza away weapon.
With that in mind, there’s a bit of
T: Pizza sportscaster-arrest momentum head- LAVON CHISLEY (PENN STATE) | murder | 98
W: Pizza ing into the events of this month JIM LAMPLEY (HBO) | dom. assault | 51
Well-known HBO boxing announcer KAT. MAEKAWA (ORIX BUFFALOES) | DUI, hit/run |4 7
Pizza Jim Lampley, 57, was arrested last DAX CRUM (ASU) | DUI | 30
Pizza week on charges of felony domestic MIKE TYSON (N/A) | coke, DUI | 28
violence, violating a restraining or- RASHAUN BROADUS (BYU HOOPS) | DUI, having Snoop Dogg’s last name |2 6
der, and preventing a witness from RYAN KRAUSE (CHARGERS) | DUI | 25
testifying. He was arrested in San DONTRELLE WILLIS (MARLINS) | DUI, peeing | 23
Diego, where police issued a state- MINNY P.D. (N/A) |T asering | 20
THE ARTS 4 ENTERTAINMENT ment indicating “there was an alter- MOBILE P.D. (N/A) |b eing dicks | 5
cation between Mr. Lampley and a KYLE MCLARNEY (NOTRE DAME) | weed possession |1
28-year-old female with whom he re- MIKE VICK (FALCONS) |l ow passer rating |1
portedly has a dating relationship”