PARROT CONTENTS

#1 -- 11/30/02

Statement of Purpose

Blasts from the Past (Kissinger, Poindexter)

Looking Ahead (themes of new Congress)

Whodunit? (Homeland Security riders)

Quote of the Week (George McGovern)

#2 -- 12/7/02

O Canada! (volunteer weapons inspectors)

The Road to Plutocracy (a friend writes...)

A Web-Site Sampler

Quote of the Week (Maureen Dowd)

#3 -- 12/14/02

The Spirit of Giving (bonuses for political appointees)

DP Reviews: Didion, Political Fictions

Quote of the Week (Trent Lott)

#4 -- 12/21/02

Easy Riders Revisited (tax shelters)

Who's Got a Secret? (Cheney's energy task force)

#5 -- 12/28/02

True or False?

Tin Man vs. Iraq

Quiz Answers

#6 -- 1/4/03

Our Friends in the Desert (Saudi Arabia)

Quote of the Week (Joan Didion)

DP Reviews: Reed, Snowball's Chance

#7 -- 1/11/03

South of the Border (da Silva in Brazil)

Did Someone Say "Class War"? (stimulus package)

If You Don't Like the Bottom Line (war costs)

Scare of the Week (5 fictive terrorists)

Web-Site Sampler, Continued

#8 -- 1/18/03

But It's Not Corporate Welfare (Polish F-16 deal)

Riders Unhorsed, Sort Of (Homeland Security)

DP Reviews: Glassner, Culture of Fear

#9 -- 1/25/03

Get Ready for Turkeyshoot II (slaughter in Iraq)

Report from the Streets (Washington protest)

Fairy Tale of the Week (Rove on Bush as "populist")

Affirmative Action Baby ("conversation" with Bush)

#10 -- 2/1/03

Why He Should Apologize (Larry Paquette)

DP Does the Numbers

Tin Man at the Mike (State of the Union)

#11 -- 2/8/03

Dead Parrot to Do New York

Megamedia Called to the Trough (FCC)

DP Reviews: Green, Selling Out

#12 -- 2/15/03

Coalition of Willing Boards Gravy Train (Turkey, France)

No More Free Lunch ("threats" to the budget)

Tin Man in Tomorrowland (hydrogen car)

#13 -- 2/22/03

Live (and Kicking!) from New York (protest report)

Fairy Tale of the Week (Bush's love for democracy)

Talking Turkey, Continued

#14 -- 3/1/03

Tin Man & the Environment, Part I

DP Does the Numbers

DP Reviews: Phillips, Wealth and Democracy

#15 -- 3/8/03

Dear Mr. Secretary (State Dept. veteran resigns)

Wishful Thinking Department (Bush's vindictiveness)

Tin Man & the Environment, Part II

DP's Political Lexicon: "Flexibility"

#16 -- 3/15/03

Top Ten Spurious Reasons for Invading Iraq

Rummy of the Silver Screen (Vanity Fair puff piece)

Tin Man & the Environment, Part III

Extra #1 -- 3/18/03

Tin Man Pulls the Trigger

#17 -- 3/22/03

What Poets Know (Poets Against the War)

A View from the Bridge (protest in Milton, MA)

Blue Ribbon for Yellow Journalism (the NY Post)

DP Reviews: Lapham, Theater of War

#18 -- 3/29/03

All Our Fire is Friendly Fire (good guys killing good guys)

Two Cheers for the Coalition (who our "allies" are)

Cui Bono? (war profiteers)

#19 -- 4/5/03

Death Squads on the Loose (checkpoint killings)

International Echo Chamber (Turkey apes Bush)

DP Does the Numbers

DP Reviews: Johnson, Blowback

#20 -- 4/12/03

Watch Your Back (war as a cover for domestic foul play)

Meanwhile, Back in Afghanistan (ongoing war)

DP's Political Lexicon: "Robust"

#21 -- 4/19/03

Tin Man Triumphant, Part I (myths about the war)

Is There Really a "Military-Sports Complex"?

#22 -- 4/26/03

RINO Watch at the Club for Growth (tax cutters)

Tin Man Triumphant, Part II

#23 -- 5/3/03

Now Boarding for the Planet of the Chimps (taxes)

DP Does the Numbers

DP Reviews: Lukas, Big Trouble

#24 -- 5/10/03

All Good News All the Time (American theocracy)

DP's Political Lexicon: "credibility," "political capital," "moral clarity"

Tin Soldier Marches On (Bush & militarism)

#25 -- 5/17/03

Friedman Among the Skulls (Pulitzer Prize-winning toady)

DP Reviews: Moore & Slater, Bush's Brain

#26 -- 5/24/03

Wants and Passions (Santorum on sex)

How Right-Wing Think Tanks Think (war as object lesson)

Bashing Mr. Daschle (Republican attack dogs at play)

The Road to Bankruptcy (bogus arguments for tax cuts)

#27 -- 5/31/03

One More War Zone (commencement speaker shut down)

Last Call for Independent Media (FCC rules change)

DP Reviews: Elon, The Pity of It All

#28 -- 6/7/03

Busting Labor's Chops (Bush's war on unions)

DP Does the Numbers

Specks on the Negative (repression of protest)

#29 -- 6/14/03

Idea Man (war enthusiast Victor Davis Hanson)

Just for Fun (whitehouse.org)

DP Reviews: Millet, George Bush, Dark Prince of Love

#30 -- 6/21/03

Stalking Roe (women in harm's way)

GOP Renegade at Work (Alabama governor seeks tax increase!)

Tin Man Flies Over (Bush's high-altitude tour of Iraq)