20 March 2003 (Thursday)

glued to the radio

Lively debate going on in the comments section of the previous post. Join in if you like, but keep it respectful, please.

As I walked down the back stairwell this morning I tried to imagine bombs detonating in the distance, gunfire echoing down my street. Neighbors huddled indoors, coffeeshops and hardware stores shut down and dark, entire buildings abandoned and crumbling. We Americans have not known war on our own soil for well over a hundred years. I wonder if we'd act differently, now, if we had.

Right, and somewhere in this I'm supposed to start doing my taxes.

posted by enjelani @ 01:21 PM PST [ link ]

17 March 2003 (Monday)

politics: fence-straddling

I'm not really qualified to weigh in on world affairs, but it does weigh heavily on my mind, so...

Here's what my intuition tells me: neither the warmongers nor the peaceniks are right this time.

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posted by enjelani @ 09:43 PM PST [ link ]