Laborious Days

Reading through this weekends articles and posts, not much has changed: polls predicting vast gains by Democrats in the November elections, housing bubble bursting tragedy on the horizon, Rumsfeld and Bush apply domino theory to the Middle East, more global warming predictions, Blair on the ropes. Otherwise its seems the same, and the same is fatiguing for the soul, newswise.

With America's vast history of "intervention" in foreign affairs, this should be easy. Let's get the CIA to hire a decent crowd of Iraqis for a special event. The military creates a corridor in Baghdad impenetrable by any insurgent. The hired hands march down the corridor, hand flowers to a designated US military recipient. The photo op is taken, disseminated, we leave Iraq, Bush saves face, conservatives say we told you so, liberals are relieved.

Addendum: Remember how the news of the War in Afghanistan suddenly diminished to a tiny trickle, only to eventually dry up. Now we couldn't be bothered with news from Afghanistan. Although there are crisis occurring all over the world, we could care less because the MSM doesn't do much to cover the stories. So there you have it. After our staged flower handing over ceremony, the news from Iraq trickles down to a whisper, and we collectively forget about it and its onto the next Michael Jackson escapade.

Two recent highly recommended articles:

1. Howard Zinn on terrorism.

2. Dr. Susan Block, White House as Frat House Dr. Block explains "Bush Atrocity Fatigue" and other relevant issues with dry painful sarcasm.

Assemblage by James Turrel