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Traveling by bus has the double effect of driving home not simply how large this country is--how many roads, exits, zip codes, gas stations and towns can fit in a finger's worth of map--but also how much exists between the familiar pieces, how much of the country I routinely do not experience. By plane, the world becomes a series of connected dots. I can move between the places I feel at home, or the places I want to go, passing over everything in between...
...enters the room. She's wearing a green hooded jacket, jeans and fringed brown boots that zip up on the side. Her daughter is wearing a blue coat and jeans with flower patches sewn on the legs. They're both ready to roll. Rah wants to go to a place called the Outhouse...
...campaigns of ideas, free of personal attacks. This year, it's not the economy, stupid - we've fixed that - it's character. That's the issue that was nearly Dubya's downfall in the primaries, and it's what he hopes to parlay into a Pennsylvania Avenue zip code...
Quarterbacked by Steve Young VII in the east, our Mormon comrades will push the Chinese overlords so far downfield they'll be back across the North Pacific in no time. Meanwhile, the descendants of former Federal Express and United Parcel Service agents will swarm every zip code west of Omaha to deliver defeat to the dreaded USPS--overnight guaranteed...
...limits on the contributions of wealthy individuals. Bush's website now spouts the phrase "reformer with results" so many times that it occasionally forgets to include verbs in its zeal to portray Bush as an outsider: "Of the major candidates, the only one who does not have a D.C. ZIP code." (Perhaps this technique is, in some way, a subtle reflection of the candidate...