But you really oughta take a look at them anyhow.
Archives for June 2004
There’s not enough foil in the world
I am deeply horrified and sickened by what’s coming out of Washington.
George W. Bush has been making comparisons between the “War On Terrorism” and WWII. I didn’t realize that in this sequel we were the Germans.
And yeah. It is that bad.
In case you’re wondering what High Crimes and Misdemeanors looks like…you’re living through it, right now.
BCCY on the Times
Fortune over at the always-excellent Bread, Coffee, Chocolate, Yoga bitch-slaps the New York Times for a stupid, shallow piece on how fair-trade coffee mainly exists to make Americans feel better about themselves:
no, what i find most comic about this coffee piece is its proud laziness, its light-weight refusal to take the subject seriously.
“the world-market price of coffee has fallen so low that, according to a non-profit called transfairusa, millions of third-world farmers are being crushed by unfair competition and cannot survive.”
those readers who stop be here even on rare occasion can’t help but be floored by that sentence.
the times has never apparently heard of the coffee crisis (and here), despite many mainstream articles on it, including one 2 years ago in the wall st. journal, of all places!