Some new favorites

Some minor updates and goings on:

The company I was working for almost closed up shop. But as quickly as I was unemployed, I am once employed again (and it looks like I’ll be working in DC).

One of my new favorite sites is the Coming Anarchy, named after a Robert Kaplan book about democracy in the 21st century, spefically with the power vacuum created after the fall of communism (one of the essay’s, “Is Democracy Just a Moment”, is my favorite and also highly controversial). Anyway, they touch on NUMEROUS subjects, and give a lot of time to regions that you don’t hear a lot about (the Stans and Eastern Europe).

I think one of the problems with the “blog world” is that there are far too many. And at times, I have a really difficult time discerning whats worth exploring and what isn’t. And I only stumbled on ‘Coming Anarchy’ after doing a Google search for the term. Otherwise I’d still be ignorant. I guess a lot of the blog world is just cluttered, and I’m doing my part!

Joe Blog Part Deux

I really think this blogging phenomenom has gone too far. Everyone from your spastic teenage girl to your antiquated intellectual has a forum to air their stupid opinions.

This opinion is also stated on my blog. Discuss.

You guys sicken me

Ok, first I exposed Clarissa explains it all, then I tried to expose Little Pete who is secretly a grocery boy for the Reagan Administration.

Has anyone thought of Pete & Pete in depth? There are some serious SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS IN THIS SHOW. First, there are two Pete’s, a mother with a plate in her head, and.. AND, artie, the strongest man on the planet (I think that’s bogus, I bet he couldn’t even bench the bar).

In all seriousness, LL Cool J DID star in one episode, as did Salma Hayek. Also there was a person who had huge pit stains because of a gland problem. I’m pretty sure this was plagarised in Salute Your Shorts by the character of Donkey Lips. Can we get verification of the problems this may have caused?

Also, does anyone have any direct ties to regime change in South America else than Oliver North and Little Pete? I’m pretty sure Nickelodeon warped children’s minds with backwards Conservative goon speak. Bigger Pete has also been recently indibted in killing a homeless person. Coincidence? DOUBTFUL.

It’s an East Coast thangggg

I wrote a letter to Salon after reading an article about Morocco’s tempered reaction to the cartoon controversy. Their reaction has been typical of predominately Islamic countries: they feel the cartoons were irresponsible and disrespectful, but does not justify reprehensibly violent behavior.

My basic premise, and I’m working on a substantial entry that I will entitle ‘Rationalizing the Middle East’ to work on this point as well, that the situation is perpetuated by advantageous people on both sides of the ‘cultural divide’ between the West and Islam. Though cultural differences may exist, they are issues that could be answered and resolved by a two hour special starring Dave Chapelle, Jeff Foxxworthy, and Lewis Farrakhan.

kind of

drifting to the abstract\\\\\\\\

one day history will be an experimental science