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Time for the rights -- and rites -- of spring
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The countdown to the Final Four is on, and March Madness consumes us. Watching basketball has become our rights of spring. But things are moving so fast, I get them confused.

For a while I had Anna Nicole Smith mixed up with Nicole Brown Simpson. I assumed that O.J. had moved to the Bahamas.

Hillary Clinton compared herself to John Kennedy in having to break down barriers. Most people find a greater resemblance with Kennedy in Bill.

Scooter Libby seems to resemble G. Gordon Liddy, the architect of Watergate. He too refused to talk.

President Bush received tumultuous greetings in South America. He went to discuss ethanol with friendly Brazil.

Yet our tariff is so high they can't export to us. But we buy millions of barrels of oil from unfriendly Venezuela.

Barack Obama spoke at the African Methodist Church where the voting rights march began in 1965. Simultaneously, Hillary spoke to a nearby Baptist congregation. The two seem to be singing that duet: ``Anything you can do, I can do better.''

While the jury in Libby's case believed him guilty of perjury, they also felt he was the fall guy for higher-ups. One thing you can say for Karl Rove. He's a survivor.

In that other city of make-believe - Hollywood, Al Gore won an Oscar. As of yet, the Supreme Court has not taken it away from him.

Vice President Cheney flew great lengths to avoid testifying and developed thrombosis.

You don't need to fly around the world to get a blood clot. Jet Blue can give you one just sitting on the tarmac.

Historians have become fascinated by Cheney's performance. One said that of all the vice presidents in history, Cheney has become the most interesting. That assessment includes, I believe, Spiro Agnew.

Bill Linneman

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Note: All views and opinions expressed in reader comments are solely those of the individual submitting the comment, and not those of the Pantagraph or its staff.

brains schuman wrote on Mar 23, 2007 3:12 PM:

" this guy was a professor.now all those letters make perfect sense "

Marian wrote on Mar 23, 2007 1:25 PM:

" It's all one can expect from a former professor who fancies himself a modern day Will Rogers. "

jimmy wrote on Mar 22, 2007 12:16 PM:

" the same as his usual point - !?WHAT?!?- not much. i'm guessing he's buddies with someone on the editorial staff, because you can count on one of these utterly pointless letters fairly regularly. at least he spared us more smoking or wind farm diatribes. "

?!?WHAT?!? wrote on Mar 22, 2007 4:28 AM:

" So... I guess anyone can now write lterally anything and have it published in the Pantagraph? The 'Letters to the Editor' USED to have a point... what was yours, Bill? "
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