••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Thursday, September 15, 2005

save the speech

david savage of the l.a.times, on npr the other day, commented on the way so many senators on the judiciary committee use up much of their allotted questioning time with prolonged introductory remarks.

he said they're better speechmakers than questioners and would do better to start off with a pointed question and save the speech for the follow-up.

an experienced trial lawyer like arlen specter has no such problem, but several senators really do waste a lot of time, so much so that they often leave little time for answers and wind up watching the clock, rushing at the end trying to get one more question in, cutting off answers, getting mixed up, and wasting more time.

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