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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.

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?

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.

Not Seeing Forests for Trees

The news from Pine Falls, Manitoba confirms that the world’s forests—those presumed saviors of the environment, are poised to bite us in the collective ankle.

My First Car Was a Chrysler

I bought my first car in 1953—a six year-old Chrysler Windsor convertible and it was a beauty. Not red, which might have been my boyhood fancy, but deep, midnight blue and I drove it through my last two years of high-school and then to Michigan State.

A Very Interesting Thing Happened on the Way to Justice

This particular interesting thing relates to Exxon and the ages-ago Exxon Valdez oil spill across a goodly part of the coast of Alaska. Seems their captain went aground with a tanker and, the next thing we knew, people were up there mopping ecosystems and sponging (as best they could) crude oil off the feathers of various and sundry birds.

Scared Witless and Playing the Patriot Card

If, by some small chance the Republicans lose one of the houses of Congress or (horror of horrors) both of them, serious allegations are likely to blossom into indictments.

Conserving Scenery, Natural Historic Objects and the Wildlife Therein

Woodrow Wilson’s instructions are pretty succinct;

“to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

Nursultan “The Thumb” Nazarbayev Gets the Bush Red Carpet

No one will notice how the Bush administration kisses these dictators on both cheeks except the people who live there--or near there--or around there. Only a quarter-billion or so Muslims. That's what makes it such terribly dangerous politics.