I read the news today, oh boy...

Jan 29, 2011 15:41

Egypt: wow. Aside from everything else, though, it reminds me again of the innate hypocrisy and contradiction of the West regarding the Middle East. We'd like you to be democratic and free, sure, but only if it can be guaranteed your freely elected goverment will be pro-West and above all secular; otherwise, we'd rather keep the pro-West despot in ( Read more... )

egypt, david tennant, schiller, goethe, politics, beatles

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trobadora January 29 2011, 15:32:39 UTC
Meanwhile, this tweet from two days ago is amazing.

Yeah, every time I see that I get tears in my eyes.

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selenak January 29 2011, 15:49:44 UTC
It reminds me to the article I linked some weeks ago, when the Muslims stepped up to protect the Copts against the fundamentalists...

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trobadora January 29 2011, 16:02:55 UTC
Yes, exactly, and my reaction is much the same. *sniffles*

These are the things that let me retain some small amount of faith in humanity.

(Btw, rereading your Goethe/Schiller posts. Made of awesome! :D)

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nevacaruso January 29 2011, 15:35:16 UTC
I love the lists! I like to think they're real.

And the David Tennant picture is adorable.

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selenak January 29 2011, 15:51:10 UTC
So do I.

David Tennant: finding ways to be endearingly fannish since he was eight years old.:)

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selenak January 30 2011, 07:14:11 UTC
I was going by my dim memory of that adorable note he wrote about meeting his younger self for the dvds.:)

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shezan January 31 2011, 23:40:36 UTC
Goethe/Schiller OTP!!!

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selenak February 1 2011, 05:32:12 UTC
I'm still grateful you made me that icon.:)

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