“The oft-repeated claim that Bush does not care about poor people, Black people, or anyone who did not vote for him misses the mark; the new face of power, manifested in Bush & Co. for the fleeting moment, is that the machinations of power do not care. Big Brother cared, a war machine does not.”

The above quote comes from Craig Saper’s fine essay, “The Blog Report: Lack of Power in New Orleans”, which has just appeared in rhizomes 11/12 fall 2005/spring 2006.

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When I stepped out of my apartment this morning, I showed my daughter the flowers that had blossomed overnight near our wall. They were daffodils. What I cannot show my child here is dhak or “flame of the forest.” But here’s a photograph of that flower, from the foothills in Himachal, taken by Vijay Parmar.