--- On Fri, 9/19/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] America today
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 8:16 PM
> [via Gawker - how meta]
>
> <http://wonkette.com/402893/402893>
>
> It’s what America looks like, increasingly. The roads
> are potholed,
> the bridges collapsing, metro trains crash and kill as
> dull-eyed
> engineers peck text messages, airlines have become
> Aeroflot, dams and
> levees busting apart, yearlong waits to get a passport,
> maimed
> soldiers sent back to the endless war again and again, and
> a book-
> banning big-government cipher from Siberia is briefly
> popular for
> being a nasty moron.
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