Man, I realized how hard i miss going to hiphop shows ( Read more... )

so, when are we meeting tomorrow?

i get out of work at 3, so i'm fine, but we have to be there at 5? so we meet up at 415? maybe? who knows?

attention:

leerooooooyyyyyyyyy nnnJenkins.

that is all.

Condoleeza Rice: "If a person cannot walk into the middle of the town square and express his or her views without fear of arrest, imprisonment, or physical harm, then that person is living in a fear society, not a free society...We cannot rest until every person living in a 'fear society' has finally won their freedom."

Yesterday in Egypt.

oops. ( Read more... )

lauren larkin where the fuck are you? fish and i are about to start barbequeing grad students. save us from certain peril.

So, I've been massaging and finessing a little pet idea of late that I really like. Its been percolating for a while, and I'm still not sure if its that original, but I really like it. Anyhow, here's my attempt to put it down. I'm using imprecise language, so, bear with me ( Read more... )

OK, Uzbekistan is still going to the dogs, although it appears to have calmed down. At least, that is, in that not quite so many people are dying.

The Uzbek government basically drummed the foreign media out of Andijan (where the killings this weekend happened.) Generally, when an oppressive, despotic ruler orders the media out of an area, its ( Read more... )

Just when you thought brutal dissent-crushing dictators were going out of style, Uzbekistan goes to shit, and Karimov starts shooting protesters. Karimov blames Islamic fundamentalists, which is an en vogue thing to do for brutal dictator types. Mauritania takes this tack too, banking on successes in anti-terrorism military campaigns to deflect ( Read more... )

So, for anyone who watches Lost, here's an interesting tidbit. Javier Grillo-Marxuach, who is a writer and producer for the series, went to my high school. Apparently he used to do theatre, and his name is on the shop wall and shit ( Read more... )

interesting developments in blogland:

I've previously mentioned my affinity for the Middle East Affairs blog Abu Aardvark (that's father of an aardvark for you non-Arabophiles.) It seems that the proprietor of this blog has been inadvartently (i think) outed in his guest blogging stint over at Kevin Drum's Political Animal. (Side note: the ( Read more... )