Plastic Farm Animals
I see Bush took advantage of Veteran’s Day to do a little saber rattling in the direction of Syria. He’s doing a good job of following the agenda set up by PNAC (the Project for the New American Century.) Have you heard of the PNAC? It’s an organization dedicated to the vision of a new […]
Can you say “consequences?” Nine nights of rioting in Paris are a good example of what happens when a generation of impoverished immigrants decides they have had enough. Or would that be Not Enough? Here’s one story in this morning’s New York Times: France has been grappling for years with growing unrest among its second- […]
So, why are Argentineans protesting against George W Bush and his Free Trade Agreement? What’s wrong with Free Trade? It’s simple – Free Trade is a euphemism for Free for All. It’s merely a license for Corporations to have a hey day with other people’s resources. Under Free Trade Agreements, a company can “develop” another […]
Small talk is very big these days and I’d like to blame this on the US invasion of Iraq. Not that I don’t enjoy generalized conversation. I’m actually quite good at it – heck, I can talk about horses until the cows come home! But seriously, it’s tricky belonging to a country at war. War […]
It was real nice to pull up the news this morning and see the president taking responsibility for our nation’s stuttered rescue of stranded hurricane survivors in New Orleans. “Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government,” Mr. Bush said. “And to the extent that the federal government didn’t fully […]