Henry Allen

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This guy was new. Dark skin, stubble, a wary economy of gesture, an accent.

I’ve been going to this barber shop for years. It has interesting barbers with interesting accents and I like to talk with them, kid around.

The owner is a woman from Georgia, the former Soviet satellite. She’s all personality — she likes to do the tango on cruise ships. She says she doesn’t like America that much, though. She’d go back in a second if Georgia was still Communist.

“That was a good life,” she told me once. But she met and married an American, and now she is running her own business, the American dream, which she says she doesn’t like, though I think she really does.…  Seguir leyendo »

MundoAmérica

Here's an idea to play with:

Give it to him, give the president everything he wants for the war in Iraq. Money, troops, the support of Congress, all of it.

Give everything that's requested by everybody in the military-industrial-political-intellectual-media complex, or at least the ones who got us into this war and still think they can get us out of it with a win.

For one thing, there's always a chance, however slight, that they will. That would be nice indeed.

After all, our vision for Iraq is way nicer than our enemies' alternatives. South Vietnam would be better off, too, if we'd won.…  Seguir leyendo »