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Editorial notebook: Samantha Puckett
Television's unreal world
Joe Rogan, host of NBC's over-the-top reality show Fear Factor, recently made an attempt to justify his existence: "Television has gotten more and more sick because human nature is coming out. People are pretty sick. We like to pretend we're not sick."

Editorials
Fixing what ails INS
Tweaking rules to tighten visa restrictions for foreign visitors would only make things worse at an already overwhelmed Immigration and Naturalization Service.

Don't lift water restrictions
The city of Tampa acted responsibly by rejecting the bad idea to relax watering restrictions. The rules are designed not only to save water, but also to change public attitudes about conservation. Encouraging residents to plant new grass and pour more water on their lawns would have sent the wrong message while the region is grappling with a water supply problem.

Letters
Fundraising isn't a clear sign of the people's support
Re: Bush eclipses all opponents in fundraising, by Steve Bousquet, April 11.

 

Columns today
Howard Troxler
Great campaign for mayor taking shape in Tampa
Buckhorn or Sanchez? Sanchez or Buckhorn?

Gary Shelton
Players raise their (white) flag to Tiger
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- This was supposed to be about Tiger Woods' greatness.

Sara Fritz
Curbing college drinking starts with a change in attitude
WASHINGTON -- While President Bush is trying to bring peace to the Middle East, officials at the National Institutes of Health are struggling with an equally intractable problem: college binge drinking.

 

Perspective
Taking jobs, alienating customers
For weeks Americans have been told that the outsourcing of high-tech jobs is good for our economy. So said Greg Mankiw, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers in a recent report signed by President Bush. So, too, writes Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in articles praising the rise of call centers in India used for everything from making airline reservations and reading medical X-ray films to providing tech support for American computer firms.

Philip Gailey: Democrats fall off campaign finance reform wagon
Well, what do you know. Soft money is back, and it's making hypocrites of all those Democrats who fervently championed the McCain-Feingold campaign reform law, not to mention those Republicans who objected to the law's restrictions on issue advocacy.

Bill Maxwell: Who is for the farm worker?
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is touting legislation to improve the lives of Florida's 300,000-plus farm workers, who endure institutional and systemic injustices each day in our fields and groves and their personal lives.

Robyn E. Blumner: For some defendants, an American gulag
In Bernard Malamud's masterpiece The Fixer, inmate Yakov Bok was subjected to psychological torture in a Soviet gulag through the humiliations of constant shackling and repeated strip searches.