Blip from the Past: America sends its best, PB&J
Here’s a Blip from the Past, an old online journal entry from October 15, 2001. It just illustrates the Bush Admistration’s cluelessness towards non-American cultural differences. Someone emailed a response, “They (the Afghans) should be glad they’re getting anything at all to eat from us.” He wasn’t being sarcastic. I’d like to know why Right Away Foods (based in McAllen, Texas — who’d have thought? Dubya connection maybe? D’ya think?) thought that starving Afghans might like to nosh on peanut butter ‘n crackers and ‘spicy beans and rice’? Right Away Foods is the company contracted by the government to provide […]
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Finally. It’s soup.
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.” Webwiseass.com, the blog, is finally soup, ready to serve. Yep, the information directory is gone, blown away, pixels and all. Buh. And, before I hemorrhage more followers, I’ll be back on Twitter during The Rachel Maddow Show and Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC. This is the second blog I’ve developed, one more to go…then I resume work on Board-Culture.com (an information directory for all board sports: skateboards, snowboards, and surf boards, along with information about new extreme sports). Whew.
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