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link time again, i hope someone is reading these:

“Do You Suffer News Fatigue? Sick of dour headlines? Too much Bush and war and death and homophobia and Bush? You are not alone” - another thoughtful piece my mark morford, maybe ‘news fatigue’ is what happened to matt good, whose blog i miss very much.
“What Could Go Wrong in 2005?” - likening the american economy to a “haystack soaked in kerosene,” this essay looks at many of the potential and very real threats that could “set this ‘haystack’ alight” and start “financial Armageddon”.
Costofwar.com - this site constantly updates the cost of the iraq war, and you can see how that relates to other costs, for instance, since the cost is at about 151 billion dollars, that could have fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 6 years. incedently, bush is now asking for another 80 billion.
“Empire Building: America and Its War with the Invisible Kingdom of Satan” - a great essay by norman mailer about the narrative(s) created by bush and co to sell the war, and how the economy and right wing religion fits into that story.
“Tsunami Media Convergence: Not a Fair Guiding Principle for Aid” - along the lines of my little tsunami rant, this essay looks at the some of the possible reasons why the tsunami aid was so big (dramatic footage, no complexity, christmas time, no one to blame) and how this outpouring of aid could actually be hurting other people.

ps big thanks to my e-saviour joe who not only set me up with this blog but also fixed it so its not all crazy looking in firefox anymore (which is the browser y’all should be using by the way, you can cut some ties to microsoft and use a far better product, its win-win)