Thursday, January 15, 2009

Just another word

In defense of sweatshops: what development specialists have actually been preaching for a decade.

Quote of the day from Gail Collins:
"We are about to enter a world in which our commander in chief speaks in full sentences, and I do not know what we’re going to do to divert ourselves on slow days."

Also, one of you in particular will appreciate this (also from Gail Collins):
"The man who gave us Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Freedom Agenda, the USA Freedom Corps and the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health has so thoroughly debased one of the most profound concepts in our national vocabulary that it’s getting hard to hear it used without remembering Janis Joplin’s line about how freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose."

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