I realize these are getting more and more infrequent, but as soon as I get back to Austin, the apathy will slowly slink away and I’ll return to doing this pretty much every day. A 12-hour semester should allow that, hopefully.
Frank Sinatra – Love is Here to Stay
I honestly can’t remember if I already posted that one. I’m pretty sure Sinatra’s already been on here, but if I actually did this one song before…well, I’m not sorry; it’s a really good song, maybe it wouldn’t hurt you to hear it more than once.
Anyway, I found a few interesting things in my perusing over the past few days. First of all, I discovered what I think is a feminist blog (there’s really no statement of any kind; the author just covers many feminist issues and links to a lot of other feminist reading, and I happen to like the presentation – very bare bones) a few months ago called Tiger Beatdown. I know this isn’t a new thing and I think it gets actually a ton of readers, since I found it from a much bigger site. I don’t know why any of what I just said is important at all, but what is important is the article posted today. It talks about the “ironic” racism and sexism and how it’s – what a shock – still racism and sexism. She singles out “hipster racism” too, which was a learning for me since I’ve spent the last several years trying to know as little about hipster-ism as possible. Anyway, I appreciate the author’s writing style because it’s pretty funny and what I imagine they sound like in person.
This is really old, but I found it interesting: Paul Eedle wrote a piece for the Guardian predicting the future of the Middle East – all the way down to the death of Osama bin Laden in North Korea! It’s so specific, I almost want to see if he’s a time traveler. Obviously, everyone is likely to find something to disagree with, but I think it’s an interesting read nonetheless.
Wow, Bill Clinton randomly showed up in North Korea and they released the two US reporters on the same day!? I don’t even know what to say about that. You really never know what to expect from those guys. Maybe Clinton got Kim Jong-Il out of some massive jam years ago and he was calling in the favor? Obama, if you’re reading this, I’d like to volunteer to go get those hikers out of Iran. Just give me a bouquet of flowers and some sweets, I know what those Iranians like.
Bad form, America: Apparently we’re leading the charge for fresh sanctions against Iran. Since the last sanctions worked so well, it actually makes a ton of sense to pile on new ones, right? They’re not in any particular need for airplane parts or anything so it should all be good. I know they’re being a little stubborn on the whole nuclear negotiation thing, but let’s not give them more reasons to retreat into their shell, at the same time giving Israel more justification for striking their nuclear facilities, which in turn will make the Iranians rush to build a nuclear weapon, if that is in fact what they’re doing. Ah, and to think things were looking up for a brief moment or tow.