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...pile up. Continually on the lookout for the kind of petty foreman who always makes these jobs that much more intolerable, Derf and crew scrape up road kill, empty out rotted-meat-filled refrigerators, shake maggots out of their hair before lunch, and then watch in horror as they forget to set the parking brake and their truck barrels downhill without them. All the while, with smart storytelling skill Derf moves "Trashed" beyond the merely repulsive. Unlike so many anecdotal autobio comix it has a narrative arc. After a full year of sanitation service Derf and his pal realize that...
...help out around the world instead of slamming America, was right on the money [GLOBAL AGENDA, March 11]. Our 20th century was horrible indeed, and twice the U.S. had to bail Europe out. Military cemeteries in France, Belgium and the Netherlands are reminders. Though we older people will never forget the wars and still stand in awe when we visit these cemeteries, a new generation is totally estranged from this history. In Kosovo, U.S. forces again had to quench fires in the heart of Europe that Europeans were loath to put out. We holler when the U.S. rightly fights international...
Chaudry also seems to forget that Israel is not after every Palestinian—it wants to live in peace with the Palestinian people and a Palestinian nation but cannot do so while powerful terrorist factions exist in Palestinian society...
...Bank and Gaza Strip a “racist colonial occupation.” He also tries to play the race card by describing “white Israeli soldiers destroy[ing] refugee camps of the brown people they have dispossessed for decades.” He seems to forget that hundreds of thousands of Jewish Israelis are from Ethiopian and Arab nations. To reduce the Mideast conflict to racism shows a lack of understanding or an extreme oversimplification...
...votes usually aren't held until Tuesday evening, if at all that day. Wednesday they put in a full day's work with votes, but they try to get out of town by Thursday evening with the last vote scheduled no later than around 6 p.m. And you can forget Friday for any constructive work; walk around the Capitol and it's a virtual ghost town...