About a week ago I came across this photo among the "curiosities" that make up most of the content of high-traffic websites like the Daily Beast and Huffington Post and boingboing, and it occurred to me that the sort of progressive blogging I try to do doesn't really amount to much more than putting up a little sign in the middle of the desert.
"Sand."
Are carbon emissions from industrialized economies causing runaway global warming? After millions of pages of scientific research, how much clearer could it possibly be?
"Sand."
Is the American occupation of Afghanistan a senseless quagmire? With nothing to show for it after nine long years, except a ridiculously corrupt government "elected" after a ridiculously crooked "election" and tens of thousands of Afghans slaughtered and millions of refugees scattered all over Southwest Asia, how much clearer could the futility of all of it possibly be?
"Sand."
Is globalization a rising tide that "lifts all boats," or just a scam for enriching an international elite, demolishing rural economies all over the Third World, and driving down American wages to "compete" with slave-labor in a "competition" where we fall behind by $500 billion in trade deficits every year?
"Sand."
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