Out of My Mind

Preface
 Part 1. Daily Life
 We're Wasting Away
 Just Another Day
 States by the Numbers
 Weathering the Storm
 Forget the Birthday Greetings
 The Junk Building Boom
 Life Becomes Less Neighborly
 The Retractable Wedding
 Better by Far
 Wedding Dumbbells
 A Job Easily Done
 Some Thoughts on Vacations
 The Smell of a New Car
 Expensive Bed, Bad Breakfast
 The Rain in Spain and Here
 Ring a Ding Ding
 Easy Pass for Airlines
 The Agony of Flight
 Going Nowhere Fast
 Take a Stay Home Vacation
 The Perfect Pat Down Person
 Technologically Illiterate
 No-Show Repair People. A Name Is a Brand We're GivenSnowy Thoughts in Summer
 Sizing Things Up
 Merry Christmas for All
 Sorting Well-Aged from Old
 The Sound of Silence
 Don't Mess with My Grass
 Notes on the News
 Part 2. Feeling Philosophical
 The Evil that Men Do
 The Terror Goblin
 Pro- and Anti-Semitism
 Anti-Israel, Not Anti-Semitic
 Who? Me Worry?
 Not a Lovers'Quarrel
 The History of History
 Faith in Science
 Vouchers for Atheists, Too
 War Is Heaven
 Human and Inhuman Nature
 No Women Allowed
 Architecture as Art
 Is It Music or Noise?
 Too True to Be Good
 For It and Against It
 What Goeth Before Falling. Leave No War BehindTo Catch a Thief
 Using the Flag
 Brokaw: Anchor Away
 Not about the Pope
 Too Many Churches
 The Koran Is Their Bible
 Murder Most Vile
 Food for Thought
 Part 3. On Food and Drink
 War on a Full Stomach
 Vive La French Food
 Food for Thoughtless
 Betrayed by an Appetite
 Cooking's the Thing When Vacation Comes Around
 The Kitchen Sink in Cookies
 Some Thoughts about Drinking
 We Aren't What We Eat
 The More You Eat
 Part 4. At Work and in the Newsroom
 It's Time to Rearrange Time
 Reading Time
 My Name's Been Stolen
 On Liking Your Work
 Free Speech
 No News Is Bad News. A Report on ReportingDon't Stop the Presses!
 Life Is Good ... Or at Least Fairly Good
 Not the Retiring Kind
 Part 5. The Nation at War
 Thoughts on a Peacetime War
 Diplomacy: Lying Politely
 Uninformed and Misinformed
 The Ashcroft Issue
 A War of Words
 A Geography Lesson
 A Preemptive Strike
 To War or Not To War
 Our Un-United Nation
 The President and History
 Muslims and Democracy
 The Looter Mentality
 A Vote against Democracy
 Words Don't Do It
 Electing a Dictator
 Talk to Us, George
 Apologizing for Apologizing
 Heroes Don't Come Wholesale
 Good Days, Bad Days. We Should Leave While We're BehindNever Mind Who Won
 Torture, American Style
 No Easy Answers
 Part 6. On Politics
 Liberal Is a Dirty Word
 Election Day
 Judging the Judges
 No Unconventional Conventions
 Beating around Bush
 We Need Smarter Leaders
 Clinton and Bush
 You Do, I Think
 The Power of a President
 Schwarzenegger for President
 The Person You Elected
 Which Side Are You On?
 The Good Losers
 Einstein for President
 Hooray for Politicians
 Crab Grassroots Campaigning
 A Phone Call to Remember
 In Bed with Business
 Time--Both Off and On
 A Nothing-Nothing Tie in D.C.