$9 Billion Gone

August 31, 2007

” . . . in March 2004, your company magically wins a contract from the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq to design and build the Baghdad Police College, a facility that’s supposed to house and train at least 4,000 police recruits. But two years and $72 million later, you deliver not a functioning police academy […]

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Drugs for Uncle Sam

August 31, 2007

In my last post, I referenced drugs. Which are bad for you, right?Unless they’re good, patriotic drugs used to enhance our soldiers and disable— sorry, “calm”— our enemies. In which case they’re terrific drugs!Here’s an article from the Herald-Tribune on the militarization of medicine. “We could also see troops going into action with chemically-heightened aggression, […]

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Drugs

August 31, 2007

So why is it that a couple of my favorite TV series are about drugs? The Wire is my current candidate for best dramatic series ever. Covering the entire spectrum of people concerned with the distribution and sale of narcotics (the cops, the gangsters, the courts, and the neighborhood), The Wire is essentially about poisoned […]

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Duet to the Death

August 30, 2007

It’s Antonioni. It’s Bergman. It’s Purgatory.

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Life.

August 28, 2007

Some days it feels just like this.

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Wide Stance

August 28, 2007

Another week, another conservative politician arrested on a morals charge. Senator Larry Craig of Idaho has pleaded guilty to “disorderly conduct” for attempting to have sex with a police officer in an airport toilet. Naturally, Senator Craig is a politician devoted to family values. Naturally, Naturally, he voted for the Federal Marriage Amendment to the […]

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Thin Man, Thick Plot

August 23, 2007

Since I live in the middle of nowhere, it takes time for me to get from nowhere to somewhere, time that generally I spend in an automobile. Usually I’m by myself and there’s no one to talk to. In order to engage my brain on the journey, I rely on audio books. A couple weeks […]

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Waiting for the Rain

August 23, 2007

2006 was, meteorologically speaking, the oddest year in New Mexico history. The first six months of the year were the driest on record: there was something less than an inch’s worth of rain in that entire period. The second half of the year was the wettest on record— it came down in buckets.We rejoiced. We’d […]

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Butt Pluckers

August 21, 2007

The other day Kat gifted us with a package of eighteen fresh eggs from her chickens, collectively known— from one of their less savory behaviors— as “the butt pluckers.”So it has been Egg Heaven around here. We have had omelettes, but for the most part I’ve just fried the suckers, because that’s the best way […]

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Water/Paper/Tea

August 16, 2007

Last night I did a hit-and-run on Santa Fe, to see the American premiere of Tea: a Mirror of Soul, by the Chinese composer Tan Dun, who among other things scored the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.We hadn’t intended to go to Tea, but the description in the program book made it too irresistible. Since […]

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