About the 2006 Book
(Volume 3 of the 5
Volume Series)
2006 was possibly the most pivotal year of the decade, with
the wheels apparently coming off American military and civil society on a
dizzying daily basis. This third segment of The
Dark Side of the Moon series begins with the Senate’s consideration of Sam
Alito’s fitness to join the Supreme Court and winds up, some 460 pages later
with the Exxon’s Valdez oil spill lawsuit limping to completion after a 12 year
swordfight.
What else was going on, while America twisted in the wind of
wars going badly and the fear-factor leading us away from common sense? Quite a
lot, actually and The Dark Side of the
Moon brings the year back into focus and sequence, (I hope) with an
appropriate sense of humor and irony. Pivotal no doubt, but 2006 surely must
also be counted among the most ironic years of the weird decade to which it
belongs.
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