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Angry Poodle By Nick Welsh | Thu Mar 09, 2006 | 12:00pm

No Dog but Dog

OUTER LIMITS: With a cinnamon-colored pit bull charging at me, I found myself contemplating sudden doubts about the wisdom of my unannounced visit. It was approaching 7:30 last Tuesday morning; the light crackled with all the stunning clarity that follows a long, hard rain; and I was checking out the Plaza Inn by State and La Cumbre, a flea-bag flop-house for those who’ve run out of luck to be down on. Although I’ve known many a sweet pit bull, I still regard the breed as the canine equivalent of a drive-by shooting.

Angry Poodle By Nick Welsh | Thu Feb 23, 2006 | 11:47am

No Joy in Dogville

REFUND THIS: Like about 2,025 other people, I wedged my soggy self into a seat at the Arlington Theatre last Friday night to see former secretary of state Colin Powell. He was there, ostensibly, to talk about leadership. I harbored some delusions that he might talk about some other things, too. Like how he’d been totally punked by the Bush White House.

Angry Poodle By Nick Welsh | Thu Feb 16, 2006 | 4:21pm

The Canine Chronicles

There’s a lot of talk these days about special interests-how they need to be curbed, reigned in, and otherwise muzzled. It’s the same old story: Greedy fat cats shelling out gazillions in political donations to maintain the status quo, despoil the environment, and keep the boot heel of oppression firmly planted on the necks of the working person.

Angry Poodle By Nick Welsh | Thu Feb 09, 2006 | 1:58pm

Dog Like Me

We’ve all heard about six degrees of separation, the notion that everybody on planet Earth is a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend no more than six times removed.

Angry Poodle By Nick Welsh | Thu Feb 02, 2006 | 10:46am

Good Dog and Good Luck

Sometimes you don’t have to go to Burger King to get fed a whopper. Sometimes the County Supervisors’ chambers will do just fine. I was only half paying attention last week when I heard Sheriff Jim Anderson announce that jail overcrowding had gotten so bad, his jailers were forced to release an inmate being held on $1 million bail.

Angry Poodle By Nick Welsh | Mon Jan 09, 2006 | 11:28am

I Yap Therefore I Yam

Christmas-New Year’s maelstrom. And I would wager every one of you is sporting a similar bite mark on your own behind as well. How’d it get there? Remember the federal spending bill passed by the Senate with a one-vote margin of victory during the Christmas vacation? That’s the one for which Vice President Dick Cheney had to cut short his visit to Iraq to cast the tie-breaking vote.

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