Praise capital, from whom all blessings flow. Muslim theologian Farid Esack, quoted in U.S. Catholic (January): “The Buddhist theologian David Loy has described faith in the free market as a religion, a religion with a transcendent god, a god that is worshiped and that its adherents have a deep yearning to embrace and to be at one with–and that god is capital.”
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News flash: Native Americans have varying opinions. Tom Goldtooth of the Indigenous Environmental Network: “I believe that as Native people, we are the land and the land is us. Those of us in the environmental justice movement have started to educate the larger environmental movement that our work protecting the environment is spiritual work” (Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Winter 2002, reprinted in “Rachel’s Environment & Health News,” December 6). David Lester of the Council of Energy Resource Tribes: “Environmentalists are using Indians the way the French and English used Indians in the French-Indian war: We’re their foot soldiers” (Sacramento Bee, December 9).
Who smokes? According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures for 1999 (Journal of the American Medical Association, December 12), men smoke more than women (26 percent to 22 percent), Native Americans more than Asians (41 percent to 15 percent), people with GEDs more than holders of advanced degrees (44 percent to 9 percent), people aged 18 to 24 more than those over 65 (28 percent to 11 percent), and poor people more than those who aren’t poor (33 percent to 23 percent).
