Lima, Peru: BBC World mentioned this morning that there was record snow in the United States and that more planes had been delayed than at any time since 9/11, but in Lima it was muy caliente under the equatorial sun as we walked through the two communities where ACORN Peru is organizing its first two …
Month: January 2005
Ohio — The Beat Goes On!
Columbus, Ohio: Flying into Peru in the aftermath of a series of hella-days, it was hard for me not to wonder what was now ranging loose and at large in the world. Without doubt, part of this is provoked by the every four year festival of folly that seems to typify an Inauguration and its …
Water from Hell!
New Orleans: We were on vacation. We had too much time! We were riveted to the television set in a way that would not have been possible at any other time. We flipped channels between CNN and BBC over and over, mesmerized and horrified. We bought papers whether we could read them or not, whether they …