Leftist Christian

Part of me wants to give Bush's administration some benefit of my vast doubt about its motives or aims. Paul Wolfowitz being chosen to head the World Bank is in some ways but one more in a long list of oxymoronic choices (Michael Moore has detailed in one of his books how Bush's cabinet members all sit in positions for which there is a direct conflict of interest). The World Bank already takes at least a questionable role in exploiting "third-world" nations and entrenching them in debt. Wolfowitz, though, is the very exemplar of a neo-con--can any good come of this? Does anyone for a minute believe he has the poor's best interests at heart? It's a mockery, really. I was a bit late in doing so, but I signed my protest to the prospect of drilling for oil in Alaska through JohnKerry.com. By the way, how many unsuccessful presidential candidates go on to be a strong voice for positive change? My vote in November is just confirmed for me with every one of the maili...

Is "indirection" a word? Everything's a word--just waiting to be used. I've been buying too many CD's, as usual (getting into Sufjan Stevens, Early Day Miners; discovering Damon & Naomi, though I should have been listening to them all along). On a whim, bought a Lakland bass. Reading God's Politics by Jim Wallis and it's kind of changing my life, or at least affirming a lot of things I had been thinking and challenging me as I ponder a new career. As far as Spring Break goes, I will have completed no books and possibly no DVDs by the end of it. Goes without saying that I won't have gone anywhere. For a half second I considered going to South by Southwest. Basically, I just looked at the web site and didn't see anything that appealed to me. There's a peace rally at the end of this week that I'm thinking of attending--that would be something positive. There are two fully drafted blogs on specific subjects that I've neglected to post. ...