I realize I have been deliquent in my posting duties to the few of you who actually care what I think of things (believe me, even I don't care what I think of things quite all the time). In descending order of what I've been thinking about really recently (as in a few hours ago):


1. The Berg situation. What was this guy doing over in Iraq? Was he or was he not held by the US Army for two weeks, as his parents claim? How come, according to the New York Times, he had
an Israeli passport? He was apparently fluent in Arabic (which I guess isn't such a bad thing, especially if you're going to be working in Iraq). Why was he wearing an orange, Western-style prison jumpsuit? Finally, why were the henchmen of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi so fucking fat? As pointed out by another poster, they
looked like Americans, from their body types to their "at ease" style of standing. Where these photos strictly an act of retaliation? Why do they convienently push the American troop atrocities off the fron page? Will the media get to the bottom of this? (insert eye roll here)

2. The mindset of prowar vs. antiwar, making one's point by force vs. making it by cooperation. I don't believe there's anything inherently wrong in either strategy; both have varying degrees of success during the course of time, and I think both of them can be effectively used together in our current quagmire. We're stuck over in Iraq now, and we may have to make an example via the
greater use of force to settle things down. However, no one is empowering the Iraqis or building their economy by letting f*cking troops do the job Halliburton is supposed to be doing (and with our money too). Need warm bodies to drive the trucks? Here's a clue, McFly: the Iraqis need jobs. And jobs often keep people out of trouble, give them dignity, help us see eye to eye, that we all want to put Iraq back together all nice like hornets back into a nest. But you knew
that, right, Rummy?

3. That show on Bravo, "Showbiz Moms & Dads" is the bomb. I really needed a dose of ironic superiority last night (the irony of course being I was giving
these kids the attention their parents so whole-heartedly wanted for them), and boy did I get it! No more "America's Funniest Home Videos" or "Real World" for me! I just don't see what drives some people to live vicariously through their children. Beghads, if they were going to use that much energy, they might as well use it living their own lives.

4. I'm really anxious about the world these days, as I'm sure you all are. With the explosion of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal and the entire Middle East inflamed over the bungled war, I often wonder if this is the beginning of the
end of our society as we know it. I'm feeling rather Chicken Little today, and yet I walk outside and it's balmy but beautiful and I wonder what the hell I'm angry about, what we're all angry about, when time still moves on, atoms couple and uncouple, gases turn into liquids turn into solids, seasons change, all without us and our
hatred and our shallowness and our greed. I want my energy level to vibrate like a tree leaf rustling in the breeze, you know?

5. Why is everything good or bad that happens domestically or internationally tied to Bush's election chances? Has our society become that politically charged that everything is seen in the shallow context of
that man's grip on the free world? Is it because every decision he makes is so revolting political that we are forced to evaluate it in the exact same context?

6. I dreamt I was a magican and that purple was my power color.

7. I've been working on a short story and hope to finish it within the next week or so.