A cockeyed optimist at that. Stephen Roach as Ensign Nellie Forbush -- who'da thunk it? "Smelling the coffee" is way too reminiscent of Reagan's fatuous "Morning in America." If Americans take a deep sniff, what they will smell is economic putrefaction. A better take on the US's hopeless plight is offered by a recent Paul Craig Roberts piece, "Outscourcing Innovation ... And Everything Else: America's Has-Been Economy" -- <http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03162005.html>
Carl