Dinner
It's been a week since I've had a drink and now I'm four into Amstel
Light, the beer drinker's light beer. Now, I just have to find my car
and I'm in business as far as din-din is concerned.
Posted by M@ at 8:15 PM 0 comments
Breakthrough
My low-grade depression seems to have lifted and my confidence
returned after beginning my latest health kick.
Usually content to feel sorry for myself in my loser job, I sent out
some resumes from work this morning. Within four hours, to my
surprise, I had nailed down two job interviews and an additonal query
about my salary requirements. Damn. All I had to do was just fucking
try.
Now for the ladies....
Posted by M@ at 7:03 PM 0 comments
Perspective
The real news about the weeklong rioting in the suburbs north of Paris
now is that the fighting and burning occurs on a regular basis, but
just not on quite such a sustained basis.
My Indian friend, a deeply conservative and traditional 25 year-old
with three Masters degrees, says that minorities are "trouble"
wherever they go. We have affirmative action in our country, too, he
says. Ironic how well he fits in with the most conservative of
Republicans, though he is in this country a minority.
No wonder France doubted our ability to occupy Iraq, I said, given
that they can't even occupy their own territory. For good measure,
every once in a while they'll bomb some former colony in north Africa,
responding to French casualities or rioting there. In France, the
French are fighting a civil war--and losing. CNN says today that the
Americans and Mexicans are fighting a border war in the Southwest--and
that the Americans are losing.
Regardless, I have a book recommendation: Republican Like Me, a memoir
about a Jewish gonzo journalist going under cover in various American
subcultures, beginning his journey by posing as a white supremacist
recruit. The supremacists fail to bat an eyelash when he suggests they
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