Just say no to the draft
There was nothing new or interesting in yesterday's New York Times. Even Maureen Dowd, Rapier Mind, was dull and predictable. One story tried to explain the lack of news from Iraq (Reporting, and Surviving, Iraq's Dangers): "It's too dangerous."
What was going on? Were the media giants hunkering down, trying to avoid making any more stupid and ultimately discrediting assertions? Could they possibly now realize that predicting the future on the basis of what they know is a fool's game?
Then I turned to the pages of Zazzle, a little-known internet enterprise that produces prints, notecards and T-shirts of extremely high quality for museum collections, digital artists, and anybody who wants to share a design with the world. On their pages of T-shirts in the Government, Military, Politics section I found many new additions: Save America: Keep the Bushes out of Washington, REGIME CHANGE '04, WANT PEACE ON EARTH?/DISARM BUSH!, I have a conscience & a brain./So no, I won't be voting for Bush., JURY DUTY WON'T KILL YOU BUT ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF BUSH MIGHT. REGISTER TO VOTE!, support the troops:/bring them home., Peace also takes courage., If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention, Bush-Cheney 2004/Because there's so much left to destroy., Voldemort/Ashcroft 2004, Bush guilty of criminal acts, STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN (with photo of Bush), Just say no to the draft.
Despite denials from all official sources, Congressmen report getting deluged with phone calls and emails from constituents anxious about a revival of the draft. Young men are worried about the future, and unemployment doesn't seem nearly so serious when you're facing death and dismemberment.
Behind much of the anti-war fervor of the Vietnam era was a simple instinct for survival. More than three months of events will precede the November elections, and they can be predicted only in a very general way: none of them will help the Bush government. Polling places ought to prepare for large numbers of young, first-time voters.
What was going on? Were the media giants hunkering down, trying to avoid making any more stupid and ultimately discrediting assertions? Could they possibly now realize that predicting the future on the basis of what they know is a fool's game?
Then I turned to the pages of Zazzle, a little-known internet enterprise that produces prints, notecards and T-shirts of extremely high quality for museum collections, digital artists, and anybody who wants to share a design with the world. On their pages of T-shirts in the Government, Military, Politics section I found many new additions: Save America: Keep the Bushes out of Washington, REGIME CHANGE '04, WANT PEACE ON EARTH?/DISARM BUSH!, I have a conscience & a brain./So no, I won't be voting for Bush., JURY DUTY WON'T KILL YOU BUT ANOTHER FOUR YEARS OF BUSH MIGHT. REGISTER TO VOTE!, support the troops:/bring them home., Peace also takes courage., If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention, Bush-Cheney 2004/Because there's so much left to destroy., Voldemort/Ashcroft 2004, Bush guilty of criminal acts, STOP ME BEFORE I KILL AGAIN (with photo of Bush), Just say no to the draft.
Despite denials from all official sources, Congressmen report getting deluged with phone calls and emails from constituents anxious about a revival of the draft. Young men are worried about the future, and unemployment doesn't seem nearly so serious when you're facing death and dismemberment.
Behind much of the anti-war fervor of the Vietnam era was a simple instinct for survival. More than three months of events will precede the November elections, and they can be predicted only in a very general way: none of them will help the Bush government. Polling places ought to prepare for large numbers of young, first-time voters.
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