I’m not feeling very comfortable posting anything but war-related stuff here at the moment. Whenever a potential post of a more inane, light-hearted or frivolous nature pops into my head, I get a slightly queasy feeling. My daily life seems a bit more mundane, not so important. Finding silly things on the web to link to for a laugh seems downright inappropriate.
Speaking of inappropriate, that’s what the Academy Awards ceremony will be this Sunday if a war has just begun. But the show must go on because there’s money to be made. The producers have a Plan B, which likely means that celebrities will have to turn those smiles upside-down and put on their “serious” faces. There will be a last-minute rush to exchange designer gowns for ones of more somber tone. Joan Rivers will not have comprehended the “tone it down” memo, and will be out on the red carpet, fully-medicated, asking, “Who did your Nair, darling?!” Can you imagine anything more pathetic and tedious and than a night full of movie stars trying to look telegenically sad? I can’t. If Hollywood wants to send a message about what’s important and what’s not at this moment, shut the show down.
Okay, that was a rant that went a little off topic. Getting back to my own content…
I’m not sure how long this feeling will last. Likely, it will slowly pass, but who knows. I have a four-day weekend coming up in a few days and I’ll be wanting to post some thoughts and pictures from the trip I’m taking to Northern Honshu. Also, I don’t want this to become an all-war, all-the-time blog. But for the moment, it just feels right to focus on the coming conflict.
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I’m stupefied in the face of all this. I don’t understand how we ended-up here. Iraq I was ill-founded enough–but Iraq II clearly not only violates customary international law and casts the US (once again) in the role of empire builder, but also further trashes the legitmacy of the UN (not that the US has ever been a very good/supportive member) and fans the flames of the fire that caused 9/11. The enormity of all this overwhelming, as is the stupidity of it all.