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Letters to the Editor


From time to time, a commentary on the world will bubble up inside of me to the extent that I'm forced to write a letter to my local, metropolitan, daily newspaper, The Age. This is where I blow of some steam. Feel like venting too? Add your own comment or visit my homepage.

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Horse Sense

The man in charge of the US' hurricane rescue operation spent the previous 11 years as a commissioner at the International Arabian Horse Association - before being "forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures." (Boston Herald, 3/9/05).

He got the job through connections as an effective fund-raiser for the Republican Party. This is Bush's cosy America: appointments are not made through merit, but through the good ol' boy network. (Closer to home, Bush made Schieffer his ambassador here on the basis that he was his business partner in a baseball team!)

Such a galling display of hubris, conceit and contempt for the citizenry echoes that other famous equine appointment, when Caligula elevated his horse Incitatus to the Roman Senate.

Vent!         


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