Yesterday’s interview with Scott Horton on AmeriCorps is now online here.
The Arkansas Tourist Bureau filed a formal complaint about my insinuation that Scott sounds like he is from Arkansas (instead of Texas).
Mp3 – Podcast of Antiwar.com interview on AmeriCorps now online
Hey, Jim, I enjoyed your interview with Horton. Just a quick thought about the Seattle Americorp scheme you mentioned. I think you said that they were collecting books to send to Cameroon’s illiterate? Last time I checked Cameroon was a French-speaking country (at least that’s its official and most widely spoken language). Even if the local Americorp group picked up on that fact, I doubt very much that there were many livres français collected in the “Emerald City”!
Keep up the good work.
Wes, this quibbling about sending English language books to a French speaking nation is exactly the kind of nay-saying that is blocking the rebirth of American idealism.
Is it AmeriCorps’s fault if the Cameroonians don’t speak the greatest language in the world????
I think some of the AntiWar.Com readers/listeners don’t understand that “national service” is a euphemism for “the draft”.
Anyway, I’d like to volunteer to do my special interactive puppet show for Joe Biden’s daughter.