Monthly Archive for December, 2000

george w. bush has stated that he is a “uniter, not a divider”, and that he knows how to pick a good team… john ashcroft was nom­i­nated by bush for one of the most influ­en­tial posi­tions in the fed­eral gov­ern­ment– the jus­tice depart­ment. the DOJ is the agency that enforces the laws, includ­ing civil rights. ashcroft is nei­ther a uniter, nor a good pick for this posi­tion (or any posi­tion in the exec­u­tive branch), because he defends con­fed­er­ate sol­diers as “patri­ots” and sug­gested they shouldn’t be por­trayed as hav­ing died for “some per­verted agenda.”

while i was head­ing home to boston after vis­it­ing fam­ily for x-mas, i heard about another amer­i­can mass-shooting on the BBC… and it turned out that this one hap­pened in wake­field, mass, at an inter­net con­sult­ing firm… and shortly after hear­ing this story on the radio, i saw a pickup truck next to me with a bumper sticker proudly stat­ing “GUN CONTROL IS MIND CONTROL“.