#Chris Hedges

"Ladies and gentlemen, the drinks are on the house."

Today, I read an article by Chris Hedges. What he writes may not come as anything new to those who frequent C99%. It's a "sense" or a feeling that seems to be shared here. But Hedges is such a wordsmith, so powerful and blunt, that the article is stunning, at least to me.

He starts out with a haymaker of a punch: