: A Magical Visit to the Enchanted Land of the Free Market. Bingo.
Archives for July 2002
Mmmm
beautiful flower, and in our own backyard nonetheless!
GW Bush has been forced
to come out with statements about the current corruption scandals that have gripped American business in the past few months, but even very neutral articles from the wires note Bush’s credibility problems on this issue. I think they should just come right out and declare War on Corporate Malfeasance. To go along with the war on drugs and the war on terrorism. It’s clear that the corporate class are as much a threat to American values and the US constitution as terrorists or drugs.
If you wanted to improve
your facility in the language of Moliere, you couldn’t do much better than starting with Les coups de langue de la grande rousse, by Dolores Tam. Since I do most definately want to improve my French, I’ve been following links there like mad.
Holy smokes
: the huge forest fires in northern Quebec have spread smoke over a huge swath of North America. Yesterday it looked like we were in the midst of an all-day eclipse through the clouds or something – the world had this odd pall about it. It has cleared here in Montreal today, mostly, but the smoke from the fires is still affecting millions.