Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Two for the filing cabinet and an observation

Filing cabinet entries:
  1. Recent volumes of the State Department's massive series Foreign Relations of the United States are available on-line. Cold war historians--take note and dig in!
  2. The USDA's new "My Pyramid Plan"

Observation:

The sidebar feature "Today in History" has an obvious right-wing bias. For example, one of today's items reads "1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security." It seems that when a Republican president signs a massive tax increase it is a "bail out," not a tax increase.

God our security,
who alone can defend us
against the principalities and powers
that rule this present age;
may we trust in no weapons
except the whole armor of faith,
that in dying we may live,
and, having nothing, we may own the world,
through Jesus Christ. AMEN
--Janet Morley, All desires known, 1988