April 21, 2003
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I feel blind.
Venik has been reclassified, news feeds which hooked a lot of small independent reports are gone or gone static (aljazeerah.info, dailyrotten.com), A blog source is silent, possibly dead (raed).
There are still The Guardian and aljazeera, and my Yahoo! news feed, but somehow it feels like my focus has been narrowed to too few perspectives to get a reasonable gauge on what is going on.
Granted, there are articles which one can point at – individual events which either support or undermine our reasons for this war and our current actions there, but they don’t really give a clear view of what is going on anymore.
I know they found the bodies of some British soldiers who may have been executed, Former general Jay Garner is now in Baghdad, Britain supports having arms inspectors, but the US does not feel that their return is realistic, a couple more journalists are dead, some others are detained, some Iraqi protestors have been shot, some American protesters have been arrested, a lot of mass graves have been found, and the military has a fun little deck of “important enemy people” cards which is sure to be a marketing hit in the US.
Sounds like a lot of info, and tidbit by tidbit, the volume may be similar to what I had before, but the picture is no longer there in any reasonable detail.
*sigh*
I hate feeling blind, it makes it hard for me to know what to do and what to think.
Well, at least there is other shit worth reading (or so one of my coworkers claims – looks interesting enough).
*sigh* All I want is 48 hours of invulnerability, a teleporter, a large caliber weapon, and omniscience. Is that too much to ask?
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In other news, it occurs to me that I may actually suffer from stage fright. I had to run the quarterly meeting at work today and noticed my neck pinching up (I’ve been fighting with some pinched nerve problems for a while although they’d receeded a bit for the last couple months).
Hrm. Not entirely convenient for a guitarist. Btw, shows coming up on both Thursday and Friday.
