I am a freelancer in the publishing industry, so words are very important to me. I'm a leftist living in a world gone mad, so politics are very important to me. I'm an environmentalist living in a degrading world, so pick up your damn trash, get rid of your gas guzzlers, and don't touch ANWR, you self-absorbed capitalists!

Do leave comments: let's make this a conversation. If you prefer, you can contact me at friuduric at yahoo dot com.

22 May 2006

Chew On This

For every $1 of oil imported from the Persian Gulf, the Pentagon takes $5 of the federal budget to "secure" the flow of that oil...


Did I mention I took on a last-minute proofreading gig from a colleague of the Consort's? It's a book on the economic implications of US militarism, and I kept gnashing my teeth as I did it. Partially because of the awfulness of the offshore copyediting job, but largely because of gems like this one.

Grrr.