I've been using the library at our local university, which is good, but I've been overhearing a lot of awkward conversations among first year students. At least, now that the semester's starting again, the coffee cart in the library is open again. What kind of library doesn't serve coffee 24/7 in this day and age.
I spent a chunk of Labor Day writing angry letters to my representatives about why we should not be bombing Syria, or otherwise involving ourselves in that country. And I feel for the people of Syria, there was an article in last week's New Yorker about the huge refugee camp over the border in Lebanon-crazy and heartbreaking, but, we, the United States, have failed all of our recent fixing-countries tests. We have a gentleperson's D- in fixing countries. Our motto should be America: We Break Countries! Our leaders need to go back to remedial intervention school before we get involved in another conflict. If I thought our involvement would save the people of Syria, that would be compelling, but everything I've seen in the past decade(s) suggests that we will only make things worse. Syria is one of those weird issues were the left and the right seem to be meeting up, so I'm unclear about who exactly thinks we should get involved. I'm not even posting any links because this is one of the few cases where I don't feel the need for nuanced arguments, I'm just going with my gut that we should not be involved in military intervention in Syria.
The interwebs also found strange bedfellows in reaction to this post (pics accompanying the post have been changed from shirtless young men to fully clothed family members, presumably in response to comments about ridiculous double standards for boys and girls.)
One response from the queer/feminist/consensual side here (I like this blog.) And a response from the conservative religious/authoritarian/purity side here (While I wouldn't consider those terms flattering, I think they are accurate and the blog author would not object to being so defined.)
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