My favorite writer nobody ever heard of, Grace Nearing, has a preview of Prez. Obama's speech to the nation's students, coming up Tuesday or Wednesday, I think:
...don’t listen to your parents and teachers -- you should know why not by now. Geez, just look at ‘em.
They voted for George W. Bush twice! They think Sarah Palin is smart! They still believe Saddam Hussein destroyed the Twin Towers! They all refinanced into interest-only option ARMs 6 months before the real estate market crashed! They didn’t diversify their 401k’s!
Golly! No wonder the Rebooblicans are throwing hissy fits about it.
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On a more sinister note, here's a Bill Moyers segment from a month ago which I missed because I don't have TV at the moment. It concerns a young Seattle artist/photographer, Chris Jordan, whose work has evolved into an extremely disturbing graphic chronicle of the dark side of consumerism. The subject may be unpleasant, but then the subject is us.
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