New Yorker

I read The New Yorker, it's an excellent publication. Lots of politics, but also full of poetry, short stories, and cartoons, as well as a sort of guide to what's going on in NY city, which of course would be much more useful to me if I actually lived there. Either way, good stuff. In the latest issue there is a column that pretty much sums things up for THE dub in a general, but brutal fashion. I couldn't find a link to this column on their website, so I'll just post some of it. Also, here's an interesting article from The New Yorker that focuses on THE dub's tax policies.
And a bit from that column; couldn't have said it better:

...alarmed by he performance of the incumbent administration during the past 31/2 years--- alarmed by its mania for shovelling cash to the very rich at the expense of families of middling means, its servility to polluters and fossil fuel extractors, its reckless embrace of fiscal insolvency, its hostility to science, its political alliances with fanatic religious fundamentalisms of every stripe except Islamic, its partisan exploitation of our city's suffering after Sep. 11th, its transubstantiation of the worldwide solidarity that followed those attacks into worldwide anti-Americanism, and its diversion of American blood, treasure, and expertise away from the pursuit of Al Qaeda to a bloody occupation of Iraq that appears to have done nothing to weaken Islamist terrorism and may have done more than a little to strengthen it.