car·riage re·turnn. the lever or mechanism on a typewriter that would cause the cylinder on which the paper was held (the carriage) to return to the left margin of the page | 9 October 2007 11:56 God bless Richard Nixon. I mean that. Today the oft-beleaguered but fascinating crook former President reached from beyond the grave to give us yet another reason to laugh at one of the mainstream GOP candidates. Had Nixon not taped every last bit of his Presidency,we’d likely never have learned today that,in Tricky Read on… 2 October 2007 18:15 In 1969 playwright and essayist Václav Havel wrote a letter to Alexander Dubček,First Secretary of the Central Committee of Czechoslovakia. Dubček,a reformer,had earned the displeasure of Eastern Europe’s Soviet overlords the previous year by instituting a modest platform of reforms,including recognition of individual liberties –freedom of speech,movement,Read on… | Objective"So much for Objective Journalism. Don’t bother to look for it here -- not under any byline of mine;or anyone else I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores,race results,and stock market tabulations,there is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms." --Hunter S. Thompson |