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Thursday January 15, 2009 · 4:25 PM PST

2009/01/15 · 16:25

As we come to the end of the Bush failure, I've been fascinated with his first, full-on catastrophe: 9/11. September 11 was a horrible day of death and destruction, as we all know. It was also a day of reckoning: any semblance that there would be peace, simply by virtue of the end--probably--of conventional warfare was clearly proven false.

Another string of thought going through my mind right now is, of course, the situation in Gaza. I have to say: I'm conflicted. I think that what Israel is doing is wrong on many levels, mainly collective punishment and the murdering of civilians. I don't think that Gaza has the manpower to achieve its stated goal of destroying Israel. But I still feel that, however wrongly Israel is acting, they still have a basis for this action, that they clearly believe. It may be incomprehensible--for perfectly legitimate reasons--to us. But I think that it's important that we at least try to understand the mindset.

So how are the two connected?

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Thursday November 20, 2008 · 6:39 PM PST

2008/11/20 · 18:39

Tonight on Countdown, a segment was devoted to Sarah Palin's interview after the obligatory turkey-pardon. After she pardoned the turkey, she gave an interview to a reporter, replete with you-betcha run-on, rein'in spending. What she probably didn't know--she couldn't be that inattentive right?--was that she there was a gruesome scene of turkeys being slaughtered, the slaughterer with a huge grin on his face for no clearly distinguishable reason.

Now, I could go into a whole spiel on the humane treatment of animals, animal rights, and the ideas of vegetarianism. But for now, let' just take this moment for a little reflection.

Follow me down the rabbit hole.

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Turkey-nomics, or Why we should all be glad that Palin isnt Veep