It doesn’t matter where the airports are in the U.S.-other countries are different-or how large or how small because since nine eleven (I spell it out to make its strangeness visible), we are all under the rule of fear.
Blog Posts on Politics
Fighting Inertia
I’m fighting a sense of angry uselessness brought on by a couple of recent setbacks, both here and in the nation at large.
Something Has Gone Wrong
Something has gone wrong with this country, and I don’t know how or exactly when.
The Caravan for Peace
Sometimes it takes a green man to wake up comfortable people in the United States. The green man, Arturo, came to Santa Fe this past weekend as one of 110 citizens of the latin states, mainly from Mexico who are traveling across the country in two large buses labeled “Caravanas Para la Paz.”
Bailouts in the Land of Duende
Today’s Spanish newspaper announces that the bailout from the European Union, a sum of money too large for me to imagine, is going to happen, although a woman I spoke with yesterday says no one knows where the money is really going-probably to the banks, as in the U.S.
Spain: The Country of Civil Dissent
This may be the road to compromise we must all follow: the ancient privilege of a small class and the endless cheerful protest of the mass of those who have less-at least in our eyes,the disadvantaged.
Tax Time: Inherited Money
In the next decade, as the so-called Baby Boomers retire and-is it possible?-die, an enormous transfer of wealth, the largest in our history, will take place-largely secretly and in silence.
Pepper Spray
In an economy of high unemployment, dependent on five percent annual growth, the woman spraying her fellow shoppers joins the ranks of the immigrant shattering the peace of a neighborhood with a leaf blower and the bulldozer beeping as it destroys a hillside for another expensive development.
Extra This Just In
An Open Letter to the Santa Fe New Mexican in response to their June 16 editorial “Lannan credibility suffers self-injury“ BRAVO TO THE NEW MEXICAN FOR RUNNING A STRONG EDITORIAL
WARNING: CENSORSHIP AT WORK
The interlacing of public and private, as Gloria Steinem famously explained, is choking individuals who attempt to speak out and crippling this country.