A Bush & Botox World: Travels Through Bush's America
"Read Saul Landau."—Barbara Ehrenreich\ Botox promoters promise to wipe away wrinkles, the signs of aging—the signs of time passing. Such "eternal youth" potions metaphorically help erase the very notion of time itself. In a phony world, increasingly dependent on smoke and mirrors, it is no wonder we look at elected officials like a cheap circus act. Saul Landau travels in and out of America, from the stress-filled cultures of Southern Californian businesspeople and poor towns in Texas, to...
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The signs are everywhere: Americans are growing tired... of being the suckers born every minute.
Acknowledgements 1Foreword 3Title Explanation 5Introduction 7The Bush Culture: Nothing Succeeds Like FailureGod and Botox: Spirituality through Shopping 15George W. Bush "Won" Another Disputed Election in 2004 21Bush Invests National Treasure in Death and Destruction 25The Reagan Legacy: Bush Inherits, World Grows Poorer 31Reagan's Last Funeral in a Calgary Coffeeshop 37Karl Rove as Strategist: Roy Cohn Lives On in Bush White House 39Leakgate: The Screenplay 45Globalization and Its Discontents 53Reagan and Bottled Water 59Bush, God and Katrina 65An Oily Religious Dream 71Different Americas: New Year's 2007 77Mission Accomplished: Iraq Is BrokenWho We Really Are 85Breaking Falluja: The 21st Century Guernica-Where was Picasso? 91Listening and Talking to God about Invading Other Countries 97Lessons from Vietnam: Wars Kill Empires as Well as People 103Outsourcing War 109Breaking the Constitution 121Jarhead: From Sparta to Iraq 127IstanbulPoem 133Mission Accomplished: Iraq is Broken 137Bad Terrorists and Zealous PatriotsTerrorism Then and Now 145Geezers Make GAS 151Luis Posada and Bush's Drinking 157Che: Man and Movie, Terrorist or Saint? 163"Paradise Now"-Movie or Life? 169Munich and the Hamas Electoral Victory 175A Sexy Environment in a Botox WorldA Happy Family in a Bush and Botox World 183Sex and the Country 189Fidel Promotes Sex Tourism? JFK Rolls Over in his Grave 195Geriatric Apprehensions 201Imperial Portrait: For Hearst Enough Was Never Enough 203A Ritual in Ashes Tossed from the Mesa 209Elegy to the Salton Sea 211Mercury in U.S. Lakes; Cyanide in India-Trust the CEOs! 219Derision in Digital 223The Mass Media, Symbols and Ownership 225Aggression Dominates the Airwaves 231Missionaries Forever 237The Ascent of Fashionism, the Decline of Consciousness 241A Third World Development Dilemma?Vietnam Diary, March 2006 249EpilogueFreedom 2007: Buy Sex on the Internet and Forget Older Freedoms 277Notes 283Index 293
