Friday, August 12, 2005

It's like making sausage

Today's essential reading on politics in these United States: Four Amendments & a Funeral: A month inside the house of horrors that is Congress By MATT TAIBBI [Rolling Stone]

The election process is broken--and it appears nothing will be done to insure true elections--but pork-barrel politicians can build bridges to nowhere in Alaska...

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