Missoula Unwinding is kind of a funny word. You know what it is, something unraveling, rope or wire coming off the spool. It takes a while for it to sink in as a concept or in George Packer’s sense as a statement of the modern condition of the politically and economically fractured America in his …
Category: ACORN
Congress Declares Truce with ACORN – Finally We Hope!
Missoula There may be signs of a thaw in the blood war that Republicans in Congress have been waging against ACORN’s corpse in the United States. According to the best count by the Huffington Post there were thirteen times that ACORN was banned from receiving any support from the government after leadership and management …
Memphis Airport and Woody Guthrie’s Revolutionary Mind
Missoula Out here off-the-grid with my grown son, we pass for each other’s adult supervision. We still keep an eye over our shoulders though. All of a sudden he grabbed a broom, and he swept the Airstream yesterday with the comment that his mother “wouldn’t have been happy looking at these floors.” It rained in …