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<item><title><![CDATA[ Goodbye, My Friends ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011900444.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/19/AR2007011900444.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Editor's Note: Art Buchwald asked that this column be distributed following his death. Buchwald wrote the column on Feb. 8, 2006, after deciding to check into a hospice, suffering from kidney failure. He had discontinued dialysis and also had one of his legs amputated below the knee. He subsequently was released from the hospice, wrote a book about his experience and also resumed writing his syndicated newspaper column. He died Wednesday surrounded by family members. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Zeroing In on a Trillion ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100864.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/01/AR2007010100864.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jan 2007 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You see it in the newspapers all the time -- a trillion dollars. It may be the cost of Medicare or national defense, or the size of the national debt. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ So Many Cards,  So Little Thought ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701586.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/27/AR2006122701586.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The family was gathered in the living room looking at Christmas cards. The first one opened was from Donald Rumsfeld. My daughter-in-law said, "They send us one every year." ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Publisher Santa Forgot ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500517.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/25/AR2006122500517.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Nobody  likes to be fired at Christmas. The recent example is Rupert Murdoch's pink-slipping of Judith Regan, who tried to publish "If I Did It," a book by O.J. Simpson hypothetically telling how he would have killed his ex-wife.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985709251" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985709251" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ When the Going Gets Tough, the War Keeps Going ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122001680.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/20/AR2006122001680.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ "We'll win the war." ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Better Read Than Dead ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801300.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/18/AR2006121801300.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The most important thing about writing a book is having book parties. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Spy by  Any Other Name ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121301832.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121301832.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Doctors in London did everything they could to save a KGB (or ex-KGB) spy's life after they discovered that he was poisoned by the bad guys somewhere in the world. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The King  And I ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101194.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/11/AR2006121101194.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Over the years I have met a lot of important people, but no one as important as Elvis Presley. Whenever I am interviewed, I mention that I went out one night with Elvis in Paris. He was in his Army uniform, on leave from Germany, and I offered to be his guide.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985710127" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985710127" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Happiness Springs Eternal ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120601972.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/06/AR2006120601972.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A lot of people want to know: What is happiness? ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Knock on  Closed-Door Meetings ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401227.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR2006120401227.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The more things go wrong at the White House, the more doors it has to keep changing so people won't know what's going on behind each one. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Unseasonable Conditions for Christmas ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901391.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901391.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thanksgiving Day is dead as a doornail. We now have to get on with Christmas. We can't pass Go. We have to stop at Wal-Mart, Sears, Kmart and Target. The order comes from on high. We have to spend like there's no tomorrow. And even if there is a tomorrow, we still have to spend more. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Indigestion All Around ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701266.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/27/AR2006112701266.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul, almost had the biggest turkey dinner in U.S. history.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985711360" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985711360" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Turkey With  French Dressing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR2006112201825.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/22/AR2006112201825.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Turkey Growers Association of America has approved this message. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ International Noose ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/20/AR2006112001242.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/20/AR2006112001242.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Hanging a war criminal is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Long Way Down ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111600441.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/16/AR2006111600441.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ I was  walking down K Street three days after the election. I noticed several people leaning out windows. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Firing Lines ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111301335.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/13/AR2006111301335.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ We know that Donald Rumsfeld resigned. We know it was in the Oval Office the morning after the elections. Only Bush and Rummy were there, so although we know exactly where the historic moment took place, we don't know how Bush broke the news.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985713255" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985713255" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Our Blue Heaven ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802014.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/08/AR2006110802014.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Every once  in a while your world stands still. This happened the other day when my good friend Bill Styron passed away. There are certain friendships that are so important they leave a mark on you long after the person is gone. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sold on Democracy ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/06/AR2006110601152.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/06/AR2006110601152.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ To make sure our elections are fair, observers from democratic countries are monitoring the process. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Muck Starts Here ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103237.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/01/AR2006110103237.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The day after the elections, you can look in your trash cans and find all the negative political TV ads. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Redskins Poll, With  A 2-and-5 Margin of Error ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001125.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/30/AR2006103001125.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ President Bush is not the only one who has been sinking in the polls. Joe Gibbs, the coach of the Washington Redskins, is also going up in smoke.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985714010" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985714010" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Join  The Crowd ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501817.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/25/AR2006102501817.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ You want another thing to worry about? ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Go Figure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/23/AR2006102301137.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Col. Cruncher was passing the newsstand in the Pentagon when he saw a headline: "650,000 Iraqis Have Died as a Result of the U.S. Invasion." ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The  Last  Flight  Out ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801661.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/18/AR2006101801661.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Ihave been at Dulles Airport for six months waiting to take a plane to Heaven. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Adieu to the City of Lighters ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601112.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601112.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It may be hard to believe, but I was a restaurant critic when I worked in Paris for the European edition of the Herald Tribune in the 1950s.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985715794" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985715794" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Weapon of Self-Destruction ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200528.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/12/AR2006101200528.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ When scientists at MIT developed e-mail in 1961, they said it was a giant step for mankind. They didn't realize it was a weapon that could destroy the lives of many people. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ One Big Unhappy Family ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901083.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/09/AR2006100901083.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Just when the White House thought it was safe to go into the water, Bob Woodward wrote another book. It's titled "State of Denial." ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Be My Guest ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100401960.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/04/AR2006100401960.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Pakistan's  president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, has written a book and has been appearing on TV to sell it. He even went on Jon Stewart's "Daily Show" on Comedy Central. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Writer's Bloc: George, Karl, the Other George . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR2006100201134.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/02/AR2006100201134.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The big question people constantly ask me is, "What happens when you have nothing to write about?"<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985717068" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=31985717068" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Downward Mobility ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092701804.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/27/AR2006092701804.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Forbes  has a new list of the 400 wealthiest people in the United States. Those who made it had to have at least $1 billion. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Eat Your Spinach, or Else . . . ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501185.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501185.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The CIA will deny it, but it has added a new torture technique. ]]></description><author>Art Buchwald</author></item>
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