21 Jun 09
listening to "Just the Way You Are - Diana Krall" →
To my dad @sf4i, who made me work to find myself, but never made me work for his love. “Daddy dear, I love you so much”
18 Jun 09
The Power Game →
Interesting piece, but as Politico points out: “One thing you can’t help taking away from a piece on the key to access in Obama’s White House: There are almost no women in the story, and none on the court.”
18 Jun 09
In fact, since the [white supremacist] movement’s inception, its leaders have encouraged members to enlist in the U.S. military as a way to receive state-of-the-art combat training, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer, in preparation for a domestic race war. The concept of a race war is central to extremist groups, whose adherents imagine an eruption of violence that pits races against each other and the government.— “I Hate Arabs More Than Anybody”: Desperate Army Recruits Neo-Nazis | Rights and Liberties | AlterNet
17 Jun 09
What does this mean for President Obama and the policy of engagement he hopes to pursue? Some will argue that Mr. Ahmadinejad may be in a conciliatory mood because he needs talks with the United States to underscore his own legitimacy, but that can only be read as a self-serving Washington perspective. Meanwhile, the Iranian people will have suffered the consolidation of power by a ruthless regime and the transformation of a theocracy to an ideological military dictatorship. That Iran neither needs nor wants accommodation with the West.— Op-Ed Contributor - Iran’s Hidden Revolution - NYTimes.com
30 May 09
listening to "You're a Cad - the bird and the bee" →
Okay, I resisted as long as I could. The Bird and the Bee are kind of awesome.
03 May 09
listening to "The Sinister Minister - Béla Fleck →
Blip is seriously lacking in Bela Fleck tunes. Banjo bandwagon. Jump on it.


