You brought up the perhaps hopeless situation in Haiti here recently so I assume at least a cursory interest on your part. Well, if you have someone in our area, have him/her send you the "Eroding Nation" 32-page broadsheet subsection on Haiti featured in the Sun Sentinel yesterday.

It's bad! Whatever you're thinking, it's worse.

And with de-forestation (for wood coal) in higher gear now than when I first heard of it 20 years ago, I'm not holding out much hope for the future. A permanent basket case, I see.

I found a few selections from it on-line (intro, feature, editorial, epilogue), but the lack of images and sequence makes the hardcopy way better.



Meanwhile, back at the ranch (in Texas or at the White House)...
Bush continues to be a miserable failure. Veeree funnee! He! He! He!

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