hope

To the millions of people around the world who jumped for joy upon hearing of Obama’s victory; enjoy this hopeful moment, because it won’t last long.    It’s time to meet the new boss, same as the old boss.  All we’ve done here is replace a white bumbling idiot with an articulate black man, and although that in itself is historic, the ‘change we can believe in’ was just a campaign slogan, not a promise.  read more »

Neo-liberalism is dead.  The current economic mess we find ourselves in is a direct result of its policies.  That has been my opinion for a while.  However, its one thing for a blatant lefty to say this, while it's quite another thing when senior members of the US Republican Party start saying it too.  Here's a startling admission from US Treasury Secretary and a key member of the Bush administration, Henry Paulson:  read more »