More on a world gone mad

Road Trip in the Plague Years

Since 9/11, irrational fear and toxic bigotry have imposed an informal blockade on Baja California's non-maquiladora economy. Now nativists in San Diego are clamoring for the complete closure of the border. It would be a catastrophe. A Siamese twin might as well saw away the flesh connecting himself to his brother. Both would die in the end. (Mike Davis at Tomgram)