When people talk about culture of life, but their decisions are based on a culture of money… When people invoke scripture against gays, but not against poverty… There’s a rhetoric gap. And it needs to be used. It needs to be used to cut the Republican party down to the ground, to smash it to pieces. (And maybe, once we raise consciousness enough, we can move past using two parties to polarize discourse, and politics can become a culture of discussion and compromise and responsibility, instead of a pathetic soccer game for a gang of greedy boys.) Kat provides this: …
Month: March 2005
Yay!
For now, Trackback Spam should no longer be a problem. Whew. So I’ve gone and applied the fix over at New Sophists’ Almanac, too.
In Case You Missed It
Hey! In case you missed the nifty Google logo for today, it’s World Water Day! Yes, a reminder of the importance of water conservation and sustainable usage, etc. etc. I remember recently mentioning having read about the possibility of wars over water in the future, somewhere online, and some flapjack American Bushita laughing at me. Think it’s crazy? Something so nuts it sounds like it’s out of a Frank Herbert novel? Think again. And again. In Africa and the Middle East (you know, the Middle East), the risk of water wars is rising. Respected author Vandana Shiva has written about …
Annoying
Argh! Trying to stop this trackback spam. Something bad has happened to my website (the trackback pings, specifically). Will fix in the next day or two… I hope!
Underground Fires
I didn’t even know such things were possible, let alone that they existed. But Centralia, Pennsylvania is a good example of a long-term underground mine fire. The pictures on this page are spooky enough, but you can also follow the links at the bottom of the page to find out more about the history of this fire. Quite the thing I was looking for to use in a short story I’m working on.
Andre Kim Scares Me
Also from The Party Pooper: Andre Kim scares the living hell out of me, too. Look at his face, man! Brrrr.
Party Pooper on Jaurim Video
The Party Pooper posts, somewhat angrily, about a recent pop music video by the Korean band Jaurim. He interprets the video as outright racist, another example of a pop culture chock full of anti-American (read: anti-white) stereotypes. Of course, you can see the video here, and ought to before commenting on it. The rest of my thoughts will be in the extended section of this post. Click the link if you’re interested…
What People Worried About When They Should Have Been Worrying About North Korea…
I have not much to say about the whole Dokto/Takeshima row that’s on, but I must heartily recommend Marmot’s coverage. (Here, here, and here, but check yourself for newer posts as well.) Nora Park expresses my own misgivings about the argument well: Mr. Ban, are we going to go to war over a stamp or a small town assembly’s vote? Let me know so I can be sure to pack. I don’t want to pack, I’m not about to leave, but good grief, how far is either side willing to go?
Did You Feel That?
At just before 11:00am this morning, my whole apartment moved around a little bit. I’ve never felt anything like it, and it only lasted a few seconds, but I realized it wasn’t just in my head because my clothes, hanging in my closet, were still swaying to and fro when the movement stopped. The first thing I thought was that it might have been an earthquake. The only thing about an earthquake I can find in South Korea is on About Joel, from almost a year ago. What’s even weirder, I know I was here last year, during that bigger …
Lime on White Day
I wrote something about Lime, and I thought I had posted it here on White Day, but it ended up in a separate part of my blog, where nobody can see it. Whoops. So she didn’t see it on the day intended. You know, White Day, a kind of couples-day like Valentine’s Day in Korea. Ooops, bad me. I also confused her work schedule somehow, thinking she was going to be working in ER all night when she was actually off at 11pm. I’m bad. Bad man. Ug ug. But anyway, I did write about Lime, and here it is. …