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Postcard From the Westwood Protest

On the day the war in Iraq began, I endured a migraine-inducing traffic jam on Wilshire Boulevard. As I inhaled car fumes for nearly an hour, my frustration grew. It reached the boiling point when I learned the cause behind the gridlock: antiwar protesters. The blocking of traffic by the No-War-In-Iraq protesters not only had no impact on the events unfolding abroad, but they diverted valuable police resources from fighting crime and preventing terrorism. They also made me late for dinner at my parents\’ house.

So it was with scant enthusiasm that I went to the Federal Building in Westwood a few days later to cover the antiwar marches for The Journal. On my way to the rally, I walked by a hippie with a stringy gray ponytail. Shouting \”Bush is a fascist\” in a stentorian voice, he gave the Nazi salute to shocked motorists, presumably an expression of his anger toward the administration.

His antics failed to move me. Neither did the opinions of the first protester with whom I chatted. After accusing the United States of going to war for oil, he said America was \”killing innocent Iranians for no reason.\”

Call me uninformed, but I thought the America was fighting in Iraq.

On the Lone Prairie

When I consider author Sara Davidson\’s now-so-public love affair with a cowboy who didn\’t know about Anne Frank, I can hear my mother saying, \”Honey, you could do so much better.\”
To which Davidson\’s response would surely be, \”Show me how.\”

Zen Rabbi

There\’s a new singing cowboy in town, and his name is Ken Kunin.\n\”I\’ve been in this crazy industry for about 10 years,\” says the lead vocalist/songwriter. And he\’s about to turn up the heat.

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