The Job: Once You Stop Thinking, You’ll Get It
Who are these people? Where do they come from? Flawed and mediocre, my coworkers do little to distinguish themselves, in appearance or manner. There are some personalities, but a lot of that distinction is due to what we might call aberrant features, from being overly boisterous and opinionated, to being good-natured and angry at the same time.
Something: The Drug of Choice
For years I felt as if I needed something, as if a hump was there in front of me that I couldn’t get over. I have expressed this feeling of ‘something’ to only a few, partly just because it is hard to explain. It is like a mental block that keeps me from being me. [...]
Playing G.I. Joe With A Semi-Literate Con Man
In last November’s bluprint (issue 2.2), I examined the media’s relationship with the US government as the ramping for Gulf War 2 was in full swing and the news agencies were doing little more than repeating the government line. What, if anything, has changed in this regard? It turns out that if anything, the news [...]
Play me like a fiddle: American media on American foreign policy
The same anecdote keeps coming up again and again in articles decrying the United States’ attitude toward Iraq. In 1996, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave an interview with 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl regarding U.S. sanctions in that country. Asked whether the sanctions were worth the death of half a million Iraqi children since [...]
