--in the pocketbook--and maybe we'll start driving more Hybrids. In France, gas is about $7 a gallon, more than double what it is in the States. Here people drive small cars, mostly diesel and they don't drive a lot. When I was living in the States, I was enraged every time I saw a lone driver in their SUV going to the supermarket. It's just so selfish. Now it's so strange for me to watch American TV shows with their enormous, four-door trucks and useless (to them) 4 x 4's and then to watch European shows where everyone is driving a tiny Fiat or Peugot. Even the police drive small cars!
I hope America gets over its self-indulgence and ridiculous head-in-the-sand attitude. We are doing irreparable damage to our environment, our roads, and our world image. And for what? So Mom can load 4 bags of groceries in the back of her trendy over-sized blood for oil machine? I can't wait for Michael Moore to do a movie on this one! Oh, that's right, he's from Detroit.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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