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From the Washington Post, on the lack of congressional oversight on the Bush junta administration:

Democrats on the committee said the panel issued 1,052 subpoenas to probe alleged misconduct by the Clinton administration and the Democratic Party between 1997 and 2002, at a cost of more than $35 million. By contrast, the committee under Davis has issued three subpoenas to the Bush administration, two to the Energy Department over nuclear waste disposal at Yucca Mountain, and one last week to the Defense Department over Katrina documents.

Yes, because Monica’s blue dress was at least as much of a threat to our country as, say… spying on our citizens or bankrupting our government.

An interesting link passed to my by my buddy Dirk Gaiser. It’s a new organization dedicated to taking on Walmart and asking them to behave more responsibly with regards to the rest of humanity.

Hmm, the nice thing about starting up a blog at Kunesh Interaction Design to deal strictly w/design issues is going to make this blog much easier to parse and actually, well, care about and read.

A really good Christopher Hitchens article sent by my friend James Wynne about the “policy” of terrorists. One of the side points Hitchens makes is that the terrorists aren’t thinking about the enemy and reflecting, they are simply acting on their ideology. To me, this is an issue I have with the intellectuals who look at our enemy and seek to understand something of ourselves or our complicity in their crime. It is an issue, but it was an issue a generation ago.

Now, we have all participated to have created a world in which men like these exist to exercise solely to fulfill a violent destiny of fundamental hatred. We should be addressing those concerns now and work for justice everyday, but it is not how to prevent more suicide bombings tomorrow or five years from now.

Anyway, I said I would stop posting political things, so there is little mention of it here vis a vis current events. Without James’ kindly im, I wouldn’t have had this to send along at all.

More rumblings from the United Nations about issues that concern us all, like poverty, the environment, AIDS. Of course, we gut the whole thing as best we can to ensure no holds barred for our great nation’s hungry corporate sponsors.

We, the SUV-driving, cellphone talking population of America won’t pay attention to these issues until a catastrophe occurs right here on our own shores. Oh, right. New Orleans. Oh, right. 9/11. Vonnegut wrote in the end of “Slaughterhouse Five” (something I’ll butcher in paraphrase here) “5 billion people; I suppose they’ll all want dignity.” Bush is proving that to be a kind of “not if we can help it” proposition for the US, hmm?

The Users of Disaster, an article posted for the October issue of Harper’s Magazine examines how the authorities use times of natural disaster to foster increases in power. Simply chilling.