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When George W. Bush finally pulled his presidency from the Florida swamp, the predictions were dire. Bush would be a man without a mandate, unable to move his agenda through the divided Senate. His plan to use Texas charm to win friends and influence lawmakers was dismissed as laughable, a rube's view of the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 New Rules Of The Road | 2/5/2001 | See Source »

...really. The majority of the Supreme Court yanked a bad tooth that was dangerously abscessing. They rescued America from the Great Dismal Swamp. They saved the nation from an electoral Vietnam - a quagmire of open-ended, ever-deepening conflict that would have torn the country farther apart, radicalized the middle, and spilled into the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Unity, Vote Counts and Other Illusions | 12/15/2000 | See Source »

...True Swamp: Underwoods and Overtime," by Jon Lewis Simply drawn but deeply imaginative, "True Swamp" swallows up all those other anthropomorphic animal comics and leaves them behind in a stinking pile. The hero, Lenny the frog, comes across a mysterious creature in the bog, but soon becomes envious of the attention it gets. This comic exudes a kind of joy and freedom in its seemingly loose, easy-going construction. And what a relief to see animals that are as likely to eat each other as they are to philosophize about the meaning of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Comics 2000 | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...True Swamp: Underwoods and Overtime" ($4.95) is a comic book published by Alternative Comics. It can be found at superior comic stores and the publisher's website...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Comics 2000 | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...their too-loud blatherings on a cell phone. I let them disrupt my naps on the morning train. I even turn the other cheek in restaurants or at the movie theater. Instead, I quietly simmer, indulging violent fantasies that involve the loud-mouthed caller's being stranded in a swamp with nothing but his cell phone and a starving, 1,200-lb. alligator named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cell-Phone Zapper | 12/4/2000 | See Source »

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