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ranting

why did they do that?

Is South Korea asking to get bitch slapped? Why the hell did they ship SCUD missiles to the middle east now of all times? I just don’t get it. What were they thinking?

On the bright side looks like some of that intelligence we are supposed to have might actually be more then talk—that makes me feel better. What are the odds that we know about a whole lot more than one SCUD missile shipment?

Also I noticed that Jimmy Carter was in Oslo yesterday to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize. He warned against the concept of the “preventive war” —I have to say that I agree with him. When you start attacking people to prevent them from attacking you how much better are you than you think they are? Now you’re the aggressor.

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books

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Truman Capote

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Capote weaves a beautiful tale of a unique personality. Holly Golightly is such a deplorably lovable character that men cannot help but fall endlessly in love with her. As the narrator recounts the times he spent with Holly I could not help but compare the power of her personality to that of a girl I once knew—she could get anything she wanted from almost any man but no matter how much they tried none of them could ever posses her or her love wholly. Breakfast at Tiffany’s is easy to read but filled with meaning and wit. And that damn scene with the cat will rip your heart out!

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Moby Dick, or The Whale

Author
Herman Melville

Moby Dick was a great book well deserving of it’s status as a classic but it was not what I was expecting. Melville is heavy on the details—to the point that you learn a lot of, now outdated, stuff about whales, whalers and whaling in general. I expected more of the white whale. Though he looms over the entire book he spends precious little time as it’s focus. Melville’s writing style is somewhat like that of Joyce in Ulysses, the same attempt to capture the local language and color and switching writing formats from standard prose to play writing. Melville, unlike Joyce IMHO, handles it well and it is neither overpowering nor distracting. A great book for detail oriented people.

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ranting

do what?

Ok, so if you where friends with your X and talked on a relatively regular basis and then one day you where at dinner with a few other friends who also know your X suddenly and they say; “I hear X is engaged…” Your thought pattern goes something like this over the course of the night: “do what? No. Maybe. That’s just rude. X did not say anything to me when we talked. That’s rude, why didn’t…?” I don’t know call me a strange person but considering we still talk regularly—we talked for a few minutes just the other day (I assume this did not just happen if these people know and I know the boyfriend has been gone for a week plus, at least I think that is the boyfriend.) I am beginning to think that I don’t have such a good relationship with this X… And I though I did.

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ranting

here we go again

looks like Bush is going to get his war—unless the 12,000 pages Iraq delivered to the UN today have something in them other than what the spokesman said. At the hand over to the UN today in Baghdad the spokesman said that the document verified that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction and no programs to create them.

Of course at the same time Saddam Hussain delivered a speach in which he called upon the people of Kuwait to resist the infidels and come together with Baghdad to resist the forces of London, Washington and Israel. So, here we go again—Bush is ready for war, Saddam is ready for war: start your engines it’s only really a matter of time (and timing for politics!) till the bombs start dropping. (oh yea on a really cheery note the US says that Iraq has enough “precursor” material to have produced 200 tones of VX gas—thats enough to whip out the world…)