Yesterday’s “something-for-everyone” budget can be described in a single word: underwhelming. Yes, the headline numbers ($85B in additional debt over five years, $20B in tax cuts . . .) were huge, but this budget lacked a key ingredient: vision. Look at the spending priorities: tax cuts, infrastructure, home renovation, job retraining, culture – can you [...]
Entries from January 28th, 2009
“I love . . .”
January 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Journal
It’s already past 12 when we start moving. There were no Lights to be seen today – only a group of cold Americans quaffing vodka behind a lighthouse shack, the warehouse where Iceland’s Range Rover surplus is stored, and a hall where “Viking feasts” are held. Inside the bus we are boisterous, laughing over the [...]
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The Game
January 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Journal
There are only three of us in the games shop. The clerk is a little goth girl, hair all stringy black, eyes outlined thick and dark, and lips the color of brand-new tire rubber. I start when she appears at my side, hand jolting away from the dun-colored box. “Is everything OK?” My voice – [...]
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