First the Slowdown, Then the Crash
by Alexander Cockburn
Between Grant's Pass, a pleasant retirement town in southern Oregon's Siskiyou Mountains, and the Californian fishing port of Crescent City, these days often noted for Pelican Bay state prison, stretches route 199. It runs alongside the spectacularly beautiful Smith River ravine for some 50 miles. To drive it, particularly on long holiday weekends, can be a teeth-grinding, bumper-to-bumper affair. This last Memorial Day weekend, on a late Sunday afternoon, I shot through in record time, meeti ...
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Posted by: michael nola
Comment: #1
Thu Jun 5, 2008 10:18 PM
The last few years I've been warning my younger friends that the party will soon be over; that their homes are not ATM machines, energy prices will sky rocket and the idea that it matters not where the products you buy are made is total fantasy. Arrogant and ignorant of the world, history and the concept of limits, our country will soon see that having the most advanced military in the world and little else will do nothing for the calamity we are headed for. Economic hard times, bring it on.
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