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”.