Throughout the past eight years of the Bush mal-administration, I've been giving our world, our planet quite a lot of thought.
• The Americanization of world cultures. I find it truly disturbing what is happening in India (Mumbai, Delhi, Varanasi or Chenai). I suppose the same is happening throughout China and much of Asia as well. Sadly, it's not only about food. (According to NOVA, PBS, Beijing, once a town of bicyclists, is now surrounded by beltways and over run with internal combustion engines.)
• Cooking our planet. The politicization of science. Wow.
• Music. What the hell is going on here? Talent is no longer a factor; apparently, it is now entirely market-driven. Kids, root through your parents' closets and find some of their The Beatles lps. They were extraordinary. Hear why.
• Bush, once again, is threatening to sign legislation permitting oil exploration and drilling in the Alaskan National Wildlife Preserve. In his way of thinking, this will lessen America's dependence on foreign providers and reliance on those who "just don't like us." One sagacious senator likened Bush's logic as akin to leveling Mt. Everest in order to obtain gravel for paving your driveway.
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