April 14, 2005
View Comments | Post CommentLong Live The Pirate Captain!
A guy ran anonymously for Student Body President of NC State as "the Pirate Captain," and won! See his campaign website, and three articles from their paper. Hilarious. Make sure you read the quotes from him in the articles and watch the video on his website.
Andrea Dworkin died. While I respect her insights on sexual politics, I could not be more against her anti-pornography campaign (or, for example, her view that marriage constitutes a "license to rape"). I think liberty is a more primary responsibility of state than is protection, though I disagree that porn has anything to do with protection.
Sharon announced that Israel wouldn't engage in a unilateral strike against Iran to dismantle their supposedly burgeoning nuclear weapons program. This is good. I don't like strikes in general, let alone unilateral ones. I'm just beginning to become a lot more informed and opinionated on Israeli issues, since I'm starting to get a little more into my Jewish heritage and seek out knowledge about these issues. Noelle gave a cool McGill hour this week about the Israeli-Palestine conflict, and her hugely biased-toward-Palestine teacher came along, too. In looking at these issues, a couple factors come to mind for me above others:
In general, I support the right of people to secede from any union and form their own country. The problems lie in territory and in making sure that the people who get swept up in this sort of change also want it to happen. So, I certainly support an independent Palestinian estate, but the issue becomes over land: how much land should they get and where, and then what should be done with the settlers already there? In general, I favor the Labour Party's position in Israel, since the right-wingers there are the ones basically advocating settling which knowingly leads to violence and stands in the way of peace.
Congress voted to eliminate the estate tax. In general, this was a Republican-backed issue, and one that Democrats fought. I side with the Republicans on this, and here's why: Only two percent of people who died left estates that were subject to taxation anyway. This because anyone rich enough to deserve paying taxes on their estates is also rich enough to have hired financial people who make sure their estates are disbursed in such a way as to avoid taxation. In any case, I support a vastly simplified tax system that would largely eliminate questions like this.
Britney's pregnant! Who cares?
The UN voted to outlaw nuclear terrorism. How is a measure like this necessary? It's like they're arguing, "Prior to passing this law, it could have been ambiguous whether or not the UN was in support of nuclear terrorism."
And I've got a funny story of my own from today:
I had just gotten out of class and stepped out of Sarratt on my way back to McGill. Then my phone vibrated and I'd gotten a text message. It was Bridget and it said, "I just farted."
Then I look ahead as I'm walking, and about fifty yards ahead of me, Bridget is also walking back to McGill, and she looks hot. So I reply to her text message with, "Nice butt."
Ten seconds or so later (I'm almost at Tolman now, she's almost to McGill), she picks up her phone and looks at it for a minute. Then I yell to her, "Nice butt!"
So she turns around and looks at me--and it isn't Bridget. I look away quickly and pretend like I wasn't the one who just told some random Bridget look-alike that she had a nice ass.
Oh, and for those out of the loop, Bridget and I have been back together for about two months now, and it's great. I just never bothered posting about it because I felt ridiculous about the yo-yo-ing. This time though, certain things that happened shook things up and made us look a lot more closely at why things weren't working out and do some self-examining, and we actually got to the bottom of a lot of things and figured stuff out, and it seems to have worked, cause it's been perfect since then.
Posted at April 14, 2005 2:40 AM | Comments (0)
