With his latest column, “Good News About Poverty,”
David “Bobo” Brooks continues his wayward adventures in idiocy.
globalization, he points to the “spectacular decline in poverty in East and South Asia” as evidence
that the world’s poorer nations are leading a global economic surge. How so? Well, of roughly
472 million people living on less than $1 a day in 1990, about 200 million have graduated to less
than extreme poverty (perhaps $2 a day).
Accordingly, when life on $3 a day (or, miracle of miracles, $4 a day) becomes a reality for
hundreds of millions in the distant future, we can expect a column headlined “Superspectacular
News About Poverty.”
Meantime, his colleague Nicholas “On-the-One-Hand-on-the-Other-Hand” Kristof offers
more of his adventures in equivocation with his latest column, “Saving the Iraqi Children.”
And by the way, don’t miss Ashcroft’s house of cards.
