Unless it clubs you over the head, and takes your mocha latte.
NYT: "In Haiti, where three-quarters of the population earns less than $2 a day and one in five children is chronically malnourished, the one business booming amid all the gloom is the selling of patties made of mud, oil and sugar, typically consumed only by the most destitute.
“It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” said Olwich Louis Jeune, 24, who has taken to eating them more often in recent months. “It makes your stomach quiet down.” "
And in the most densely populated areas of the world (China, Indonesia, India), New Zealand is brokering unprecedented trade agreements.
And also from the NYT:“It is unprecedented,” Mr. Holle said. “Nobody saw these kind of market prices coming.”
No one my arse. The bulk of the United States, maybe. Where (for instance) despite journalism for once covering the effects of the corn boom and biofuels, people still are warming to ethanol as fuel! This in a nation where it is not daily survival, but health insurance and retirement that is worth our attention. {"Sicko, this is Whatever Happened to the Electric Car?; I believe you two have some things in common"} By the time Americans get used to (the outrage!) $4 gas, people in nations where it's seven dollars have already moved on with their blessed lives.
The "bitter" thing. Sidestepping the grandstanding press...So there's some good dialogue going now surrounding the 'bitter comments'--and none of it positively inspired by ABC and their debacle--I mean debate. Let's face it--there are a number of words that are off limits in certain political frames. This is one of them (denial, extinction, paradigm, evolve also come to mind--the use of them more strictly governed than we'd like to admit). Our collective lexicon is a more 'vaccum sealed' environment than it seems. O for shame a black man speak of a nation's prevailing reality--which the media have refused to acknowledge since they traded their best intentions for political favors and advertising dollars. Bitter? Well I miss decent television, good journalism and many of the values found outside DC, Vegas and Walt Disneyville. Is that so wrong?
What do Fido and Charlie the Tuna have in common?
And from the Wild North country, where freedom's still free and (Police)"do what police do"...(clues: transit fare + taser)
At least they're talking about the difference between BE-ING citizens, and consumers.
If you're feeling really brave.....ArtVoice. It ain't all cubists and nudes....
Many years ago Winston Churchill said: "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
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Sorry to catch it late, but as always my tongue has been liberated by the generous consumption of alcohol! Watching this primary unfold is like watching porcupines hump. Obama is, in my opine, the "real deal" Civil servant driven by a do-gooders need for setting things right. He's not perfect in that he he'll get shot before he brings down the empire, but he wears the bullseye on his head like a champ and the blue-dogs can't stand it! The Clinton machine is an abomination to humanity in donkey's clothes and always has been. Welfare reform, NAFTA, GATT, Telecomm dereg., you name it. The only chance THEY have is bribery and the only reward will be more Limbaugh on the airwaves. What's sad is they're only marginally better than McStain. Speaking of India, my boss is going to teach me Hindi so I can communicate with my bank's customer service people better and ask them why they don't form a union...
The most reliable televised news source in the US is the Daily Show. Seriously. They at least have the balls to admit it's about entertainment. Politicians campaign to the "news" cycle not the people because they are part of the entertainment industry - the U.S #2 export behind guns and weapons systems. Like theatre, if there is no conflict you can't move the plot along and keep the audience. That goes back to Aristotle folks and human nature hasn't changed one bit since. I'm pretty dim and I figured that out! We are merely spectators until blood is spilled in our back yard. Then it will be too late.
Thanks J.
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