[lbo-talk] America today

[andie nachgeborenen]

Just a small personal indication. Been liquidating parts of my library on Amazon, getting rid of books I haven't read in 10 years or more and can't envisage readiung again, miscellaneous law and philosophy and history books I don't use, old novels and plays I won't read again. Thousands of books. Lots of good Sovietica, btw, for those as is interested. In three years I have had maybe a half dozen lost books -- until the last three months, when I must have had another half dozen. Full refund, but it's costly. I asked what's up at the post office. Shrug, budget cutbacks, personnel reduction, antiquated machinery. That's life in the world's only superpower (for now). But I do guarantee if the book fails to arrive that you get a 100% no argument refund.

--- 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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