World War Three
Someone mentioned on one of the Sunday morning news shows that the middle east horrors = WIII. As in, we are currently in world war iii. The middle east is a world concern, no question. But the world isn't
actually in the war, it would seem to me. China? No. The US (with Isreal/Palestine/Leb)? No. Germany? No. UK? No. Japan, Australia, Russia, any of Africa, any of South America, the real countries in Europe? No.
I don't understand.
In The Matter Of Al Franken
I would like to state for the record that Al Franken momentarily (for a year) outsmarted me. I thought I outsmarted him, but today I realized that he tricked me. I'm glad, actually, because I'm back to semi-respecting him, same as I did before his trickery. Very clever, that Franken.
I've met more people in D.C. by reading in public than any other way, which was unexpected. Plenty of people here like to talk about books, which could be the only first-hand proof I have that everyone in D.C. is educated. 1 in 100 people here have a law degree! I expected to meet interesting and intelligent and wonderful people here and I just haven't, so I made the resolution to read more in public, thinking that would bring me into contact with them. I came to this realization as I began to read "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them." I don't want to read this book in public. I'm embarrassed for some reason and I fear that it's because I am a
closet democrat. How can this be?! I'm a democrat when I talk to people (and by democrat I mean that I speak like a normal and educated person)(as opposed to someone
retarded, I mean, conservative, I mean, republican)(HA! That was for you, and you know I meant every word of it) so why not be a democrat while reading? I don't know, but I'm bringing Reading Lolita in Tehran with me in case I chicken out and need to be mainstream literary.
