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[maddict]

So I've been reading a lot of The Economist lately. I'm bored in Clarksville, so I've been renewing my roots with old periodicals. In the midst of all these crises, I've been relying on my usual sources (Democracy Now!, Indymedia, Amnesty International, Environmental News Network). Financial markets, food prices, exchange rates, natural

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Just based on the kind of laws we've been able to get passed, the climate in Washington is becoming more and more regressive as we sink deeper into the black hole of the War on Terror. We could be taking progressive action to meet the challenges of the day, echoing the Endangered Species Act or the Green Revolution or any of the other examples of government, industry, and science working together to improve society on a truly historic scale. But instead, we're turning into a paranoid theocracy. I'm not optimistic, to say the very least, that a Democratic White House can change that. There's only so much you can do in eight years.

I'll look into "A Different Voice". I'm still negotiating border treaties between my happiness and the rest of the world's, though. As for steady relationships, I haven't really had luck with consistent girlfriends...ever, come to think of it. I mean, I really can remember the last time there was a girl I would openly rely on, or feel like I was getting deep emotional support from. It's sad to think about, but it's really just been friends and sexual partners punctuated with a lot of unrealized infatuation. Le sigh. But who knows? Maybe summer will be more promising.

I do find a lot of genuine fulfillment from work and writing, and maybe taking classes in communications and working more closely with people in my field of choice will be better for me. I'd like to be a political writer, and I'd also like to teach kids how to read. Literacy has always been close to my heart. But I guess there's only a certain kind of fulfillment that a satisfying career can give you.