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February 27, 2007

Bush Regime 80s Retro Extravaganza Continues

The talk in some of the national papers today is about a proposed missile shield in Europe. This is Bush's biggest Eighties Nostalgia move since the time he briefly dug up John Poindexter.

February 18, 2007

Aristide interview

The recent interview with Jean-Bertrand Aristide in the London Review of Books is comprehensive, fascinating, frustrating, and sad. He is straight up about the problems his movement faced, and answers a lot of second-guessing. It's an instructive case study of how hard it is to make social change, especially in a poor country like Haiti.