rectal dysfunction
One problem with using those short, Asian-style tables is that if your cat decides to sit on your lap while you're eating a meal, and then she decides to turn around on your lap, her posterior can pass dangerously close to your plate. Last night as I was eating dinner, I had to quickly push my plate away to avoid what I feared would be a cat-rectum-on-quesadilla incident. I don't want my cat's rectum, or any animal's rectum, on my food.
Speaking of food consumption, my chia seed procurement problems seem to be over. I was relying on the small, not-so-economical packages they sell at Food City after Native Seeds lost their chia seed supplier. But they must have found a new source for them. I was there on Saturday and saw that they had plenty in stock. Also, Whole Foods has them now. I don't know why it took them this long to start carrying them. They're a great health food: high in protein, high in fiber, and a good source of omega-3 fatty acids. They're good for people who are diabetic, as well as for people who don't absorb or assimilate enough calcium.
I think now that Pluto is no longer considered a planet, I really think Europe should no longer be considered a continent. I can remember when I was in grade school, learning about the continents, wondering if I was the only one who thought it was the product of some Eurocentric fantasy that Europe was considered its own continent, instead of a region of the Asian continent. (I don't know if I knrew the word Eurocentric back then, but the thought was there conceptually, even if I didn't have the vocabulary to articulate it.) Later, in high school, I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and I was reeling a bit when I learned that Malcolm X had also questioned Europe's status as a continent. But I suppose Europeans have more influence in the field of geography than the people of Pluto have in the field of astronomy, making Pluto's demotion possible but Europe's demotion unlikely.
The 20 books I listed on Sunday bring my total for the year to 100, so I think I'll do what I did last year: with any books I read for the remainder of the year, I'll stop at least a paragraph short of finishing them--and finish reading them next year--so that I can leave this year's total at a nice, even number. Having decided that, I compiled a comprehensive list of the books I read this year. That list is below.
1. The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power by As'ad AbuKhalil
2. Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New "War on Terrorism" by As'ad AbuKhalil
3. One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse by Ali Abunimah
4. Terrorism: Theirs and Ours by Eqbal Ahmad
5. First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie
6. Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie
7. Conversations with Edward Said by Tariq Ali
8. Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali by Tariq Ali and David Barsamian
9. Patty Diphusa and Other Writings by Pedro Almodóvar
10. The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting by David Barsamian
11. Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine by David Barsamian
12. Targeting Iran by David Barsamian
13. My Enemy, My Self by Yoram Binur
14. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum
15. I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight by Margaret Cho
16. "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration by Aviva Chomsky
17. At War with Asia: Essays on Indochina by Noam Chomsky
18. Chomsky on MisEducation by Noam Chomsky
19. Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood by Noam Chomsky
20. Radical Priorities by Noam Chomsky
21. Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture by Noam Chomsky
22. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
23. Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar
24. Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
25. Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
26. Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
27. Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup by Noam Chomsky, Paul Farmer, and Amy Goodman
28. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, and Allison Silverman
29. Iran Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country by Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni
30. The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman
31. Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth--A Memoir of Iran by Camelia Entekhabifard
32. Iran: Everything You Need to Know by John Farndon
33. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein
34. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein
35. A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth by Norman G. Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn
36. The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years by Norman G. Finkelstein
37. The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by thomas_frank
38. The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
39. Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
40. Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
41. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism by Greg Grandin
42. Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern by John Gray
43. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
44. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
45. The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Robert Jensen
46. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
47. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot
48. How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Hervé Kempf
49. Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky by Assaf Kfoury (ed.)
50. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
51. Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by naomi_klein
52. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by naomi_klein
53. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
54. The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky (trans.)
55. Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran by Afschineh Latifi and Pablo F. Fenjves
56. Empire by James Laxer
57. Oil by James Laxer
58. Stalking the Elephant: My Discovery of America by James Laxer
59. "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist
60. A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist
61. Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land by Sven Lindqvist
62. Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis
63. All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism by linda_mcquaig
64. Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire by linda_mcquaig
65. It's the Crude, Dude: Greed, Gas, War, and the American Way by linda_mcquaig
66. Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
67. Bring on the Apocalypse: Essays on Self-Destruction by George Monbiot
68. Manifesto for a New World Order by George Monbiot
69. Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
70. Mike's Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore
71. Stupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
72. Angels for the Burning by David Mura
73. The Colors of Desire by David Mura
74. Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire by David Mura
75. Superpatriotism by Michael Parenti
76. The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond by Michael Parenti
77. To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
78. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity by Vijay Prashad
79. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart
80. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
81. The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy by Arundhati Roy
82. Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said by Edward W. Said and David Barsamian
83. The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon
84. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva
85. Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed by Vandana Shiva (ed.)
86. Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech, and Opinion Control Since 9/11 by Nancy Snow
87. What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store? by Bill Talen
88. Light in the Crevice Never Seen by Haunani-Kay Trask
89. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
90. Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life by Luis Alberto Urrea
91. Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction by Luis Alberto Urrea
92. Wandering Time: Western Notebooks by Luis Alberto Urrea
93. Race Matters by Cornel West
94. Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams
95. Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male by tim_wise
96. The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf
97. My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices by Lila Azam Zanganeh (ed.)
98. The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian by Howard Zinn
99. The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency by Howard Zinn
100. Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports by Dave Zirin
The nice thing about a list of 100 is that it makes figuring percentages easy. For example, I can say that 27 percent of the books I read were either written, co-written, or edited by women; 14 percent by Europeans; and 10 percent by Canadians.
Speaking of food consumption, my chia seed procurement problems seem to be over. I was relying on the small, not-so-economical packages they sell at Food City after Native Seeds lost their chia seed supplier. But they must have found a new source for them. I was there on Saturday and saw that they had plenty in stock. Also, Whole Foods has them now. I don't know why it took them this long to start carrying them. They're a great health food: high in protein, high in fiber, and a good source of omega-3 fatty acids. They're good for people who are diabetic, as well as for people who don't absorb or assimilate enough calcium.
I think now that Pluto is no longer considered a planet, I really think Europe should no longer be considered a continent. I can remember when I was in grade school, learning about the continents, wondering if I was the only one who thought it was the product of some Eurocentric fantasy that Europe was considered its own continent, instead of a region of the Asian continent. (I don't know if I knrew the word Eurocentric back then, but the thought was there conceptually, even if I didn't have the vocabulary to articulate it.) Later, in high school, I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and I was reeling a bit when I learned that Malcolm X had also questioned Europe's status as a continent. But I suppose Europeans have more influence in the field of geography than the people of Pluto have in the field of astronomy, making Pluto's demotion possible but Europe's demotion unlikely.
The 20 books I listed on Sunday bring my total for the year to 100, so I think I'll do what I did last year: with any books I read for the remainder of the year, I'll stop at least a paragraph short of finishing them--and finish reading them next year--so that I can leave this year's total at a nice, even number. Having decided that, I compiled a comprehensive list of the books I read this year. That list is below.
1. The Battle for Saudi Arabia: Royalty, Fundamentalism, and Global Power by As'ad AbuKhalil
2. Bin Laden, Islam, and America's New "War on Terrorism" by As'ad AbuKhalil
3. One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse by Ali Abunimah
4. Terrorism: Theirs and Ours by Eqbal Ahmad
5. First Indian on the Moon by Sherman Alexie
6. Flight: A Novel by Sherman Alexie
7. Conversations with Edward Said by Tariq Ali
8. Speaking of Empire and Resistance: Conversations with Tariq Ali by Tariq Ali and David Barsamian
9. Patty Diphusa and Other Writings by Pedro Almodóvar
10. The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting by David Barsamian
11. Louder than Bombs: Interviews from The Progressive Magazine by David Barsamian
12. Targeting Iran by David Barsamian
13. My Enemy, My Self by Yoram Binur
14. Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum
15. I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight by Margaret Cho
16. "They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths about Immigration by Aviva Chomsky
17. At War with Asia: Essays on Indochina by Noam Chomsky
18. Chomsky on MisEducation by Noam Chomsky
19. Middle East Illusions: Including Peace in the Middle East? Reflections on Justice and Nationhood by Noam Chomsky
20. Radical Priorities by Noam Chomsky
21. Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture by Noam Chomsky
22. Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs by Noam Chomsky
23. Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy: Dialogues on Terror, Democracy, War, and Justice by Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar
24. Class Warfare: Interviews with David Barsamian by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
25. Keeping the Rabble in Line: Interviews with David Barsamian by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
26. Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky by Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian
27. Getting Haiti Right This Time: The U.S. and the Coup by Noam Chomsky, Paul Farmer, and Amy Goodman
28. I Am America (And So Can You!) by Stephen Colbert, Richard Dahm, Paul Dinello, and Allison Silverman
29. Iran Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country by Shirin Ebadi and Azadeh Moaveni
30. The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea by Stephen Endicott and Edward Hagerman
31. Camelia: Save Yourself by Telling the Truth--A Memoir of Iran by Camelia Entekhabifard
32. Iran: Everything You Need to Know by John Farndon
33. Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History by Norman G. Finkelstein
34. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering by Norman G. Finkelstein
35. A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth by Norman G. Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn
36. The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years by Norman G. Finkelstein
37. The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule by thomas_frank
38. The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
39. Standing Up to the Madness: Ordinary Heroes in Extraordinary Times by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
40. Static: Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back by Amy Goodman and David Goodman
41. Empire's Workshop: Latin America, The United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism by Greg Grandin
42. Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern by John Gray
43. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky
44. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
45. The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege by Robert Jensen
46. Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
47. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag by Kang Chol-Hwan and Pierre Rigoulot
48. How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Hervé Kempf
49. Inside Lebanon: Journey to a Shattered Land with Noam and Carol Chomsky by Assaf Kfoury (ed.)
50. Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid
51. Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate by naomi_klein
52. The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by naomi_klein
53. Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
54. The Subject Tonight Is Love: Sixty Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz by Daniel Ladinsky (trans.)
55. Even After All This Time: A Story of Love, Revolution, and Leaving Iran by Afschineh Latifi and Pablo F. Fenjves
56. Empire by James Laxer
57. Oil by James Laxer
58. Stalking the Elephant: My Discovery of America by James Laxer
59. "Exterminate All the Brutes": One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide by Sven Lindqvist
60. A History of Bombing by Sven Lindqvist
61. Terra Nullius: A Journey Through No One's Land by Sven Lindqvist
62. Mankiller: A Chief and Her People by Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis
63. All You Can Eat: Greed, Lust and the New Capitalism by linda_mcquaig
64. Holding the Bully's Coat: Canada and the U.S. Empire by linda_mcquaig
65. It's the Crude, Dude: Greed, Gas, War, and the American Way by linda_mcquaig
66. Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran by Azadeh Moaveni
67. Bring on the Apocalypse: Essays on Self-Destruction by George Monbiot
68. Manifesto for a New World Order by George Monbiot
69. Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore
70. Mike's Election Guide 2008 by Michael Moore
71. Stupid White Men...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation! by Michael Moore
72. Angels for the Burning by David Mura
73. The Colors of Desire by David Mura
74. Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire by David Mura
75. Superpatriotism by Michael Parenti
76. The Terrorism Trap: September 11 and Beyond by Michael Parenti
77. To Kill a Nation: The Attack on Yugoslavia by Michael Parenti
78. Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting: Afro-Asian Connections and the Myth of Cultural Purity by Vijay Prashad
79. Israel/Palestine: How to End the War of 1948 by Tanya Reinhart
80. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
81. The Shape of the Beast: Conversations with Arundhati Roy by Arundhati Roy
82. Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said by Edward W. Said and David Barsamian
83. The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation by Philip Shenon
84. Biopiracy: The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva
85. Manifestos on the Future of Food and Seed by Vandana Shiva (ed.)
86. Information War: American Propaganda, Free Speech, and Opinion Control Since 9/11 by Nancy Snow
87. What Should I Do If Reverend Billy Is in My Store? by Bill Talen
88. Light in the Crevice Never Seen by Haunani-Kay Trask
89. The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
90. Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life by Luis Alberto Urrea
91. Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction by Luis Alberto Urrea
92. Wandering Time: Western Notebooks by Luis Alberto Urrea
93. Race Matters by Cornel West
94. Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America by Kristian Williams
95. Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections from an Angry White Male by tim_wise
96. The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot by Naomi Wolf
97. My Sister, Guard Your Veil; My Brother, Guard Your Eyes: Uncensored Iranian Voices by Lila Azam Zanganeh (ed.)
98. The Future of History: Interviews with David Barsamian by Howard Zinn
99. The Unraveling of the Bush Presidency by Howard Zinn
100. Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports by Dave Zirin
The nice thing about a list of 100 is that it makes figuring percentages easy. For example, I can say that 27 percent of the books I read were either written, co-written, or edited by women; 14 percent by Europeans; and 10 percent by Canadians.