Choose The Blue Pill

So, a comrade from CAJA has this great fun-raising idea, easy money. You just go down to Bio-Life Plasma Services and hold out your arm. In no time your a little light headed but twenty dollars richer. WEELLL. What do they say about easy money?

Thats right, I tried it today. After filling out endless forms and getting a physical and sitting around for two hours Im finally led into the atrium, a shiny techno- chamber where several dozen droids lay lined up in naugahide recliners, hooked up by plastic tubes to blinking , buzzing machines. White coated technicians scurry from machine to machine, leading droids in and out, and carrying bags of plasma to the central deposit area. We're talking about a scene right out of Matrix. I got stabbed and hooked up to" my " machine and tried to read my New Left Review but the automatic tournequet kept squeezing my arm. I think Ill get a real job and donate an hour a week to social justice.

George Bush is like the ugly American tourist trying to speak to the foreigner. If he doesn't understand, just yell louder. Having successfully used this tactic in the past, Im not saying he won't get away with it again, but loudly denying that a document says what it plainly says, in black and white, seems like a hard sell, even to the Fox news crowd. The militarist argument is classic "we had to destroy the village in order to save it " logic.

Did anyone see that hard hitting interview of Condi Rice by Katie Couric? You can't make this stuff up. Lets see,Iraq, Afghanistan, all the other "stans", we all know about. Sudan, Somalia, Congo, not so good. Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, all in crisis. Mexico, could be trouble.Latin America, all pretty much lined up against us. Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran.N.Korea,.. So Condi, do you think you still could get married, Katie asks?