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Dow Chemical Continues an Ad Campaign in Poor Taste

It's an interesting corporate decision to ‘reintroduce’ a hundred year-old company with great fanfare and a $20 million annual budget. Since Dow bought Union Carbide, it may well need a reintroduction. Union Carbide was responsible for a continuing disaster in Bhopal, India, after it released 27,000 tons of MIC gas from a pesticide plant in 1984.

Why the Farce Continues Without Impeachment

There are those, and I am among them, who are amazed that this administration has yet to run afoul of an impeachment effort in the House of Representatives. The difficulty is that we who are in favor see the issue as one of necessary justice and the absolutely critical defense of the Constitution, while Nancy Pelosi sees it in terms of what is possible.

Stop Me Before I Self-Destruct Again

Like lemmings headed off a cliff, Ford, Chrysler and General Motors sent their emissaries to Congress, demanding equal rights among themselves to pound the final nails into their collective coffins. Lacking a sensitivity for irony, no one among the various Senators being strong-armed handed out ‘Been There, Done That’ tee shirts.

The Washington Post With Egg on its Editorial Face

Ignorance is bliss. Sounding as if it were ghost-written for the Post editorial board (as indeed it may have been) by Robert Kagan, their neocon-attack-dog-in-reserve, the piece had its own  excesses of cynical mockery. He (it, they) continues,

The A B C’s of Panic at the White House

When the president is so weak that his only remaining weapon is the veto, the first whisperings of panic can be heard in the corridors of the west wing. The corridors are emptying out, except for Gonzales and Rove.

Kicking and Screaming Our Way to the G-8 Conference

It’s all so embarrassing.

Nation after nation tries to get America to limit its emissions and then we’re caught between 1st and 2nd base in a rundown over the cost to American industry. Top (and usually unnamed) administration officials tell the world that Americans will not support a wiggle or a squiggle in their standard of living in order to guarantee a living with standards.

Just What’s Needed, Another Road Map

It’s a taxi-ride from Israel to Palestine and yet the Road Map for Peace in the Middle East hasn’t been much help in bringing these countries together. Drive down the coast to Tel Aviv and turn left—how hard can it be?

As We (Too Many of Us) Get Poorer

As we get poorer, the best we seem able to do is take a spiritual attitude toward the increasing numbers of Americans living at or near the poverty level. Religion has always espoused the argument that the disadvantaged should be meek, that their reward lies in the hereafter. That’s an argument of the privileged, of course and you don’t see the poor in the front pew at any church I ever attended.

Clearing Off My Desk

This is an experiment and of course, it’s not really clearing a desk but a computer-file; all the stuff that was immediate not so immediately ago. It's gotta be dealt with, shuttled off to long-term or ignored. We’ll see.

If it works, the title may appear from time to time.

Just Let Me Die at the Country Club

Sholnn Freeman (no relation) over at the Washington Post, recently reported Detroit’s collective decision in the automobile business to just throw in the towel.