here it comes
Been ripping through Jonathan Franzen's "Corrections" tonight...nothing like well-written fiction to make you feel tingly and alive.
Courtesy of the B'Drop, I am sparkling when I should be zonked (the double mocha and triple au lait are coursing through my system like Fantastic Voyage with a jackhammer).
Perhaps due to the caffeine today my whole personality consists of mumbles and shuffling feet.
Feeling pretty good in my little space, though much needs to be done to give the year some promise.
On the world stage, all is a mess and we all may be victims of an unknown Omega Plague that Saddammit is holding onto. Here's to the end of the world and the fool in me that, despite all the imminent human waste and danger of war, sees the ouster of a vile dictator as, in principle, not a bad thing.
Despite not being the religious type anymore, only prayers will do, symbolically. My prayers are with any military personnel & their loved ones, as well as with the Iraqi people who have been living under this guy for 30 years and are going to suffer more before it's over.
I guess my opinion comes from trying to imagine living under a Saddam-style dictatorship. Hey, I can see that America is often corrupt, violent, unfair, hypocritical, arrogant, and bloated. It is still not a place where you can be tortured to death for displeasing the leader's regime. There's an Iraqi immigrant from Edmonds, about my age and now under arrest (speaking of US mistakes)for the 'crime' of sending money home to his family. To charge him with being a Saddam supporter is not only ridiculous but obscene...at the age of 14, this man saw his father dragged away for criticizing Saddam. He tried to interfere and was clubbed. He never saw his father alive again. (Please don't assume this is an isolated incident.) There are other, more graphic stories but I don't want to soil LJ with them.
That's the world. In B'Ham, things still are peaceful right now, and the mellowness of the day was perfect. Enjoy it while it lasts, folks...
Courtesy of the B'Drop, I am sparkling when I should be zonked (the double mocha and triple au lait are coursing through my system like Fantastic Voyage with a jackhammer).
Perhaps due to the caffeine today my whole personality consists of mumbles and shuffling feet.
Feeling pretty good in my little space, though much needs to be done to give the year some promise.
On the world stage, all is a mess and we all may be victims of an unknown Omega Plague that Saddammit is holding onto. Here's to the end of the world and the fool in me that, despite all the imminent human waste and danger of war, sees the ouster of a vile dictator as, in principle, not a bad thing.
Despite not being the religious type anymore, only prayers will do, symbolically. My prayers are with any military personnel & their loved ones, as well as with the Iraqi people who have been living under this guy for 30 years and are going to suffer more before it's over.
I guess my opinion comes from trying to imagine living under a Saddam-style dictatorship. Hey, I can see that America is often corrupt, violent, unfair, hypocritical, arrogant, and bloated. It is still not a place where you can be tortured to death for displeasing the leader's regime. There's an Iraqi immigrant from Edmonds, about my age and now under arrest (speaking of US mistakes)for the 'crime' of sending money home to his family. To charge him with being a Saddam supporter is not only ridiculous but obscene...at the age of 14, this man saw his father dragged away for criticizing Saddam. He tried to interfere and was clubbed. He never saw his father alive again. (Please don't assume this is an isolated incident.) There are other, more graphic stories but I don't want to soil LJ with them.
That's the world. In B'Ham, things still are peaceful right now, and the mellowness of the day was perfect. Enjoy it while it lasts, folks...