Feb. 11 - President Obama's stimulus package is intended not only to shore up the economy, but the U.S. psyche. The American Dream itself. But what if we euthanize the American Dream?
Jan. 29 - Barack Obama wrote the headline to chapter one in his own administration's history when, with George Bush sitting just feet away and the whole world watching, he seemed to wipe away a whole doctrine with:"We reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals." As he the new president was signing executive orders that shut down the detention facilities at GITMO, U.S. military drones fired missiles that killed at least 15 people inside Pakistan, leaving people around the world asking if the controversial military policy begun by George W Bush had changed after all.
Dec. 25 - It is a testament to the filmmaking and propaganda skills of Frank Capra that even a grown male atheist like the Hermit will weep like a schoolgirl whose puppy just died when, at the very end of Its a Wonderful Life, Georges brother raises a glass and says: To my brother George, the richest man in the world.
