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Jun. 13th, 2004 04:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walbournThe Stranger has some good stuff this week:
A humorous piece about the new Seattle city library - "Killer Library: The New Central Library Offers Civic Validation, a Huge Collection of Material, and a Staggering Number of Startling New Ways to Die"
Naturally a number of stories about Ronald Reagan and his legacy from the leftist viewpoint. I particularly liked this editorial about how Bush Jr. tries to emulate Reagan.
A humorous piece about the new Seattle city library - "Killer Library: The New Central Library Offers Civic Validation, a Huge Collection of Material, and a Staggering Number of Startling New Ways to Die"
Naturally a number of stories about Ronald Reagan and his legacy from the leftist viewpoint. I particularly liked this editorial about how Bush Jr. tries to emulate Reagan.
Years ago Rosalynn Carter said that the American people liked Reagan because "he makes us feel comfortable with our prejudices." It wasn't a compliment.
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It's not just the policy similarities, which are obvious. Reagan endlessly repeated banal, feel-good platitudes about American virtue; so does Bush. Reagan was a Manichean, eschewing subtlety in favor of a cartoonish worldview, a B-movie morality play in which good always vanquishes evil; this tendency is even more pronounced in Bush.
