We Are Fast Becoming Fast Food

Super-size me, baby. No, I'm not fat, but my country is. My country is also receiving the most nominations for this year's Cheap Styrofoam Containersies Awards. What do I mean by this? Well, it has dozens of subtle interpretations, I assure you, but the only one you need to remember is that GWB is making us a disposable country. "You're either with us or against us," Cowboy George said one night on the range. The world was listening, and they've been giving us their answer. Not in so many words, but in the increasing number of meetings, summits, trade blocs, and military alliances the U.S. is not being invited to. Check out this sobering article in the Financial Times for an analysis of our many recent fuckups. We thought we were the coolest kid in school, but we forgot the lessons of the many movies of the 80s, which taught us again and again that overbearing, too-handsome jocks always lose in the end to the nerds when their mundane malignancy is exposed to the rest of the school and their hot girlfriends dump them for a little geek action. (Who would our hot girlfriend be, internationally speaking? I'd say England, but they're more like our sidekick. Maybe Japan?)

The author of this awesome and sobering article (the one I linked to, fool--I'm the author of this awesome and sobering article) is Michael Lind, whom the rumor mill pegs as a former neocon turned rational. Amen, brother Lind. Welcome to the light.