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No, the reason I'm going to miss Bill Clinton is that watching him these past eight years has given me the same unbridled, childlike joy as watching a cartoon. Clinton was our first cartoon President. He ran off cliffs, was crushed by anvils and flattened by turn-of-the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I'll Miss About Bill Clinton | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

In the cliffhanging aftermath, we get a Daffy Duck performance: Low cunning and idiot greed spluttering political horsefeathers all over the Florida courts. The system desperately needs new blood. But where will it come from?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time for the Ancient Art of Ostracism | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

This is going to sound too good to be true, but there is still a place in the Lower 48 where cell phones don't work and no one is daffy enough to pay twice the price of gasoline for designer water. They don't have to. Springwater bubbles up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Nary a Drop for You | 9/25/2000 | See Source »

"Thay!" I spluttered, imitating Daffy Duck's voice of low cunning, "that'th a good idea! I think I'll try that mythelf!!"

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beware of Lance Morrow Quoting Chaucer... | 8/21/2000 | See Source »

At dinner, we cannot remember the name of the sculptor who did the Statue of Liberty. I tell a story about Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and about their creator, the great animator Chuck Jones, who has a cartoon on his office wall, captioned "Agnostic Fleas," showing two fleas standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Voracious VCR Is a Reminder of Real Fun | 7/18/2000 | See Source »

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