Posted by Racer on July 4, 2004, at 14:01:44
I'm reading "Bushwacked" by Molly Ivins right now. It's entertaining -- she's just such an engaging writer -- informative, frightening, and utterly outraging. Right now, I've just finished her essay on the Wyoming methane fields. Contrasting the reality of life for small ranchers in Wyoming with the rhetoric about "small family farmers" used in the Estate Tax repeal was absolutely outrageous. Here the Shrub was going on about how the Estate Tax was destroying small family farms by forcing the heirs to sell the property to pay the taxes, when the small family farms and ranches had a heckovalot more to fear from the government's cavalier use of the mineral rights under their land, which do not include protection of the water quality. {{shudder}} Gee, um, thanks...
Anyway, it's very interesting reading, despite the disturbing nature of the material. Has anyone else here read it? (And if you have, are you ever going to eat at a fast food restaurant again after reading about meat processing and the toxic waste issue involving the buns for McDonald's hamburgers? For that matter, will you ever eat ground beef again, after learning what the rules are about fecal contamination of the meat?)
Not, of course, that I want anyone to think I have any opinions about anything related to political issues... Not me, not a one...
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