kicking and screaming
track one on Neil’s wonderful mix CD is “I know you love me” by the Smoking Popes.
I was listening to news radio as I drove home tonight.
Russian elections. boy, the western media and Russia do not get along. but with good reason. that country just has no idea how to behave democratically. it’s a country that is still engrained with a tendency toward authoritarian rule. and that’s fucking scary.
Venezeulan elections. Hugo Chavez is an interesting man who makes some good points. he’s a counterbalanace to neoliberalism in the western hemisphere, and that at least keeps shit interesting. but he’s introducing constitutional reforms that will basically keep him in power indefinitely. and if that’s not the most alarming, unequivocably power-hungry, eye-brow raising thing a democratically elected president can do, I don’t know what is.
an unexplained airplane crash in Turkey. the BBC radio host didn’t say it, but he was pretty suggestive. Turkish flight with nothing wrong with it. nothing wrong with it. searching for an explanation. no mechanical problems whatsoever. he did everything but stamp his foot and cough while mumbling “Kurdish terrorists.”
work is alright. I can’t figure out the new guy. and this isn’t pertaining to the fact that I’ve hypothesized that he’s gay. no; entirely free of that, he’s kind of an asshole. like, slyly condescending. it comes and goes, like I can’t get my finger on it and I’m being outwitted. devilry!
but that’s all, wink. I’ll write more when I read more international news that terrifies me.
the manner in which russia underwent their political transformation from communism to their post communist system can be seen as a major factor behind their tendancies toward authoritarian rule, according to kitschelt
oh, those Russians. And hey, I JUST wrote a paper on Socialism and the Revolution of 1917. Fun stuff.
6am? Seriously? You were awake last night until 6am? What is wrong with you?
no, I wasn’t. where are you getting this?
google reader. sorry. it’s wrong sometimes.
are you sure you weren’t awake that late? I believe google over you.
that’s right. i said it.