Thursday, March 04, 2010

Joe's Been Writing Again

If you are not a regular visitor to Joe Bageant's blog you might have missed his latest two screeds. One of the best writers on the Internet.
Here are links to his latest two posts.  Round Midnight: Tortillas and the Corporate State and Moon Over Gringo Gulch

Here is a particularly nice paragraph from the last:
We find ourselves trapped on a dark and nasty merry-go-round. One that keeps going faster and faster to the point where everyone is too terrified to jump off. So we hang in there. And the state's one voice to the many says, "Don't pay attention to the wreckage on either side of the tracks. Because this train is bound for glory, this train. Ask any televangelist or Pentagon general. Ask any of the economist eunuchs inside the president's high sanctum, engineering "the recovery" in the name of God, cheap oil and the new jobless populist republic. Yessiree, there's light at the end of the tunnel, just around a few more bends. Don't let the fact that the track keeps descending downward bother you. And besides, if there is a buck to be made in hell, we will triumph. Because after all, we are The Americans.

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