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Michael Finley

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The Perfect Anti-War Poem

I Have a Theory

Evil Is As Evil Does

The Last Turkey

The New Al Gore (11-23/2002)

Katherine Kersten, Soldier (11/20/2002)

Conservatives and Regressives (11/19/2002)

A Motive for Murder (11/18/2002)

The Fisking of Garrison Keillor (11/15/2002)

What Would Jesus Drive? (11/14/2002)

Talking John Birch Blues (Nov. 11, 2002)

Note to Ben Kepple

Mr. Finley Goes to Washington (April 1, 2001)

Heroes & Martyrs (October 28, 2001)

The Abdication of Journalism (September 10, 2001)

Minnesota, South Dakota, and Missouri (August 26, 2001)

In the Como Woods
(October 26, 2001)

Perspective
(October 8, 2001)

Message from America to Its CEOs
(September 17, 2001)

Dark Thoughts (June 11, 2001)

United States (September 17, 2001)

Lost Luggage (March 23, 2002)

Stupid in America (June 7, 2002)

But the city beckoned (July 29, 2002)

Teams and Politics (June 22, 2001)

My Breakfast with Eugene (November 8, 2000)

  Pass the Test (December 13, 2001)

Techno-Smear (November 8, 2000)

"I'm sorry." (November 5, 2000)

Pow! Charlie Hahn Lets Me Have It Right in the Kisser (October 29, 2000)
Elect an Expressive: Inside the candidates' Personalities (October 27, 2000)

Vote for Gore AND Bush (October 22, 2000)

Gore's Lies (October 8, 2000)

12 Cold Questions for George Bush (August 3, 2000)

Prayer for Peace (July 26, 2000)

Republicans and Democrats (December 15, 2000)

Pass the Test (December 13, 2001)

Conversation with the Candidates (August 12, 2000)

Imelda's Closet (August 2000)

Cynical Thoughts about the Microsoft Breakup (June 8, 2000)

The Electronic Candidate (June 11, 2000)

Memorial Day 2000 (May 20, 2000)

Desire of the Everlasting Hills (May 22, 2000)

Why We Are Black (March 25, 2000)

Bees in the Head (April 16, 2000)

Night Shift at the GOP Phone Bank (March 26, 2000)

cipher, erase ... (Presidents Day 2000)

Waiting for South Carolina (February 8, 2000)

My Life with Kathleen Soliah (January 23, 2000)

A Bonfire of Creative Destruction (January 9, 2000)

Dog Down the Well (January 5, 2000)

Cold Wind, Mad Dog (January 3, 2000)


1999

A Mitzvah for the future (December 26, 1999)

"Democratic Erections" (Nov. 28, 1999)

"Ethics Scandal Jolts School Board Campaign" (Nov. 1, 1999)

Nothing but blue skies from now on (October 1999)

Big Information vs. the Giant Dirtball (September 19, 1999)

Computers and the Holocaust (September 12, 1997)

Labor Day Archetypes (September 5, 1997)

Of Politics, Processors, and Poetry (August 8, 1999)

Suffering Succotash (July 10, 1999)

Born on the 4th of July (July 4, 1999)

  Yugoslavia: You've Got Mail (May 2, 1999)

  A Question for the Animal Liberation Front (April 1999)

"What Can a White Man Do?"" (March 14, 1999)

"Gloomy Guesses about the Coming Global Meltdown" (October 5, 1998)

"I Have Seen the Future and It Is Old" (March 7, 1999)

"Rendering Unto Microsoft" (February 7, 1999)

"Between Economies: A Tale Most Micawber" (January 31, 1999)

"In Praise of Shamelessness" (January 27, 1999)

"Impeachment Blues" (January 14, 1999)

"The Clever and the Good" (January 15, 1999)

"What the heck Are Future Shoes?" (January 17, 1999)

"1999 'Moron' Award Winners Announced" (December 27, 1998)

"How Many Workstations Has the Pope?" (November 30, 1998)

"The Man in the Plastic Garbage Can" (November 15, 1998)

"Hurrah for Minnesota! Hurrah for Democracy!" (November 4, 1998)

"The War Machine" (March Computer User 1998)

"Labor Day with Peter, Paul & Mary" (September 7, 1998)

"The Spook in the Machine" (March 9, 1998)

Is Matt Drudge the New Tom Paine? (Feb. 2, 1998)

The Millennium Fiasco ... a Y2K scenario (Jan. 1, 1998)

Microsoft versus the Justice Department (For release Nov. 13, 1997)

Free At Last: Open Season on Tax Talk (10/6/97)

Four days in Sao Paulo -- Some Observations. (9/29/97)

Questions for the Queen (8/4/97)

Thoughts on Memorial Day, freedom, and the nets (5/26/97)

The end of journalism as we know it (4/1/97)

The terrible error of our time

Cybersmut and alien election tampering

The Unabomber is really no worse than Mork from Ork.

The new war between the states

The world's stupidest techno terrorist

Newt Gingrich and the war on p7ublic television

The millennium problem, in spades

The return of the Neanderthals

Negroponte for President

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