Archive for December 6th, 2008


I’ll take a good atrocity over slavery any day

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Russ Wellen under American Culture, United States, World [ Comments: 5 ]

Got a hot atrocity? Bring it on and I’ll try to wrap my mind around it. For example, I read four books on the Rwanda massacres starting with We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. Philip Gourevitch’s book may have been single-handedly responsible for positioning the tragedy front and center before American intelligentsia. Full story »


An end to raw deals from government? If Obama has his way

Posted on December 6, 2008 by Russ Wellen under Economy [ Comments: 2 ]

By the time you read this, you’ll probably have heard. From Politico. . .

President-elect Barack Obama added sweep and meat to his economic agenda on Saturday, pledging the largest new investment in roads and bridges since President Dwight D. Eisenhower built the Interstate system in the late 1950s, and . . . tying his key initiatives to jobs in a smaller and modern version of FDR’s New Deal.

Nice to see that between the economic crisis and foreign entanglements, he didn’t lose sight of these issues: Full story »