...to remind the earth that you burned here.
Things have been dragging along here in MA. I feel like time should be moving faster, but alas. This won't be one of those annoying entries where all I do is complain. With this much excitement in the world, how could I do that?
First and foremost, Thailand is in the process of having a coup! No joke! I mean, sucks for them, right? But how cool to be hearing about it. Coups are something I always associate with ancient history or weird places like...France. My favorite part in the news about this revolution was an article that mentioned that Thai people were watching the coup unfold on foreign networks like CNN. All I could think of was in Crash when the chop shop guy was talking about a guy getting caught by the Forensic people while watching a Discovery show about Forensic science.
I know it's not a laughing matter and I feel truly sorry for the Prime Minster (er, former PM) who is in New York right now for the UN convention. Apparently it was a big deal that he cancelled a speech that he had planned for today. My response of course: "y'think?"
"Oh gee: we're real sorry that your country is in turmoil and you might as well not go back to Thailand at all ever, but we're still going to need you to deliver that speech this afternoon."
In other UN conference news, there was an article this morning (The link I copied this morning has magically turned into something else during the course of the day....hmmmm) about how Dubya and El Presidente of Iran (I can't spell his name and you can't pronounce it, so why bother, right?) were planning avoiding each other at the conference. Kind of like "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." Or in elementary school, if two kids were fighting on the playground, the lunc lady made one play on the swings and the other way over on the monkey bars. You go world leaders. Dibs on the twisty slide.
My World History teacher told the class something really strange today...not sure if I believe it or not and I can't find any solid, concrete evidence that it's actually true, but... Apparently if you're directly descended from two people that contracted the Bubonic Plague, but lived then you are completely immune to HIV. ...not sure how you'd go about testing this besides reintroducing the plague into a population and going from there, but it's a cool thought. One article I read said that this information doesn't help scientists develop a cure for AIDS and out came the "y'think?" again. Although someitmes I like to play around with vials of deadly diseases capable of a horrifyingly drastic pandemic, the FDA just doesn't like it all that much.
So that's my world news update. I know most likely no one reads those updates at all, but I feel all good writing them anyway. It's nice to throw my thoughts on current events out there and not start a giant debate. For example, when I mentioned Bush just before, my computer did not start getting all huffy because of the war. Many thanks to the non-biased interweb!
And because I need to have something of some interest in each post and Janice said she was having a crappy day, this one's for her:
