Stupid White Men [antikvár]

THERE ARE THOSE who say it all started to unravel the night of November 7, 2000, when Jeb Bush gave his brother George Jr. an early Christmas presentthe state of Florida.For others, those upon whom a decade's fortune had smiled, the turning point came when the Dow had its biggest annual loss in almost twenty years.For most, though, the day the music died came the night we were told Pluto was no longer a planet, and hfe as we knew it was as distant as the look in the new "President"'s eyes.Wherever you choose to pinpoint the exact moment when it all crumbled before your eyes, it matters not. The only thing that matters is that we, collectively, as Americans, all know that someone has pulled the plug on our all-night binge. The American Century? That's over. Welcome to your Century 21 Nightmare!A man no one elected sits in the White House.California can't find enough electricity to operate its juicers, or execute its inmates.It's cheaper to FedEx yourself across town than to drive there.Russia and China have signed a new pact^just when we'd dis-manded the last of the fallout shelters.Dot-coms have turned into Not-coms, making the NASDAQ as safe a bet as a backroom craps game in Reno.