One thing I've been thinking about lately (for no reason in particular) is who I would pick for my advisors if I was ever elected President of the US. That's not very likely to happen any time soon, but it makes for an interesting thought experiment. Here's who I came up with:
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Last year on Martin Luther King Jr. Day I posted my favorite political cartoon. That just never gets old! What better way to celebrate than by ridiculing the KKK?
On a completely different note, I'm quite disappointed by how slowly the Huygens data has been released to the public. This article does a pretty good job of summarizing everything thus far.
That's all I got.
Yesterday I went to see Fahrenheit 9/11. It was pretty good. The fact that Moore actually managed to get it released before the next presidential election makes me hopeful that there is still a chance Bush won't be re-elected. The detractors seem to feel that it's just propoganda, but I see it as anti-propaganda. We already know the position of the Bush administration, but the mainstream media always seems to gloss over the really negative stuff.
What really made me happy was the scenes in Iraq. This is the first time, since the very beginning of our attacks on Iraq in 1990, that we have gotten to see a glimpse of the devastation. Thousands of innocent civilians have been killed there by us, and yet we never get to see the casualties. Whether or not their deaths are justified, it's reprehensible that they are never considered newsworthy. That by itself could have been a movie.
One interesting development since the movie came out is that it looks as though there is now a distinct possibility that Saddam was not responsible for gassing the Kurds and that the CIA has known this all along. (Also, Bush wants to force schoolchildren to take prescription drugs.)
Besides the movie, one other development makes me hopeful that Bush's career is at an end. It is this t-shirt. I mean, honestly, how many people in their right minds would vote for a candidate whose supporters basically admit that they are evil and have the t-shirt to prove it?
I really didn't have much to say about Memorial Day. Despite the fact that my father was in the navy, I was never raised to think anything of it. Some of the people I read have much more to offer on the subject, so I'll refer you to them.
Receptionista -- with what's going on in iraq now, saying things like this out loud may brand me as a rabid patriot and turn off my fellow liberals.
Schmed -- War is a terrible thing, and ending war is a noble endeavor, but there are only two ways to do it
Warning: I'm about to get very political in this entry. Since this is mostly a non-political blog, I'm always a little hesitant about posting strong political content. I would hate to alienate (or attract) readers based on the expression of any strongly held but controversial political views I may hold. The following extended post contains material strongly critical of US foreign policy in Iraq as well as certain aspects of American culture. Feel free to skip today's entry if you find such opinions distasteful.******************************************************************************
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