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The Point Is (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Can Obama See the Grand Canyon? On Presidential Blindness and Economic Catastrophe By Mike Davis Let me begin, very obliquely, with the Grand Canyon and the paradox of trying to see beyond cultural or historical precedent. The first European to look into the depths of the great gorge was the conquistador Garcia Lopez de Cardenas in 1540. He was horrified by the sight and quickly retreated...
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TODAY ON VOT3R - Politics STORIES (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
[Note for readers: TomDispatch Associate Editor Nick Turse, has the lead piece at the Nation magazine this week and it's a sobering walk down memory lane. "A My Lai a Month" is an exposé of American war crimes and the slaughter of thousands of civilians in Vietnam's Mekong Delta in the late 1960s,...
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Armchair Golf Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Whether or not you like his visor, this man can putt. (Mike Davis/Flickr) HERE’S A 2008 TOUR STAT to chew on: Ben Curtis went 347 consecutive holes without a three-putt green. (That was 347, in case you thought it was a typo.) I was never great at math, but I can divide on my handy little desk calculator. Let’s see, 18 into 347 equals 19.28. OK, so that’s 19 rounds without a three-putt...
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Ensaios Imperfeitos (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
By Mike Davis , Tomdispatch.com . Posted November 19, 2008 . We are now at a crash site, and our priority should be to save the victims. Here's how we do that. No one should be shocked to discover that, in his transition to the presidency, the "inexperienced" former senator from Chicago has turned to the last Democratic administration that had experience in Washington. It seems, however,...