Having spent time online with a number of Americans, I know that there are three kinds of writing about anti-Americanism: the kind mostly by Americans, which I have little time to listen to because it’s usually rather decontextualized and whiney; the kind which is simply foreigners justifying anti-Americanism, which is boring as hell; and, finally, the kind that’s usually (though not always) by non-Americans, which is often interesting because it’s often a criticism of blind anti-Americanism which nonetheless still manages not to completely embrace pro-Americanism, or which celebrates non-American culture as well. As a Canadian, that being a person from …

This is old news, but I never heard it. Listen to a piece from NPR : All Things Considered for Thursday, June 19, 2003. Here’s the blurb for that show: ‘N.Y. Times’ : EPA Report Omitted Global Warming Data The New York Times reports that the Bush administration edited out information on the effects of global warming from an upcoming Environmental Protection Agency study. The tone of the edited document puts more emphasis on uncertainties about climate change. Hear New York Times environmental reporter Andrew Revkin. Yeah, that’s what we need. Bush editing our science reports. And we trust this …

A depressing look at the mechanics of things inside the White House… I don’t know what to say or think about this for now, but the angry Rove described in that article sounds like someone who would have leaked info like what happened in the Wilson/Plame scandal. Rather sad.

Should I be so shocked to see something as sensible as this in, no kidding, a Moby Tour Diary entry? ok, so some ne’er-do-wells in the bush administation might have broken a very serious law and revealed the name of an undercover cia operative as a way of getting revenge on the cia operative’s husband. the cia operative’s husband had issued a report that said that saddam hussein wasn’t actively pursuing enriched plutonium for the making of nuclear weapons. so apparently some people in the white house called some journalists to reveal this man’s wife’s name, as she’s an undercover …

I’ve longed to find something in the American debate that isn’t ideologically crippled by being “Left” or “Right”… and while I don’t know how easily its demands could come about, I think that this article, The wages of luck, by Matthew Miller, is at least something that doesn’t try to be left or right, but calls for some kind of consensus between the parties for sorting out America’s problems. Now if only I knew what to suggest for Canada.