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Want a crash-course on “what’s going on” in Cuba/Afghanistan/Pakistan/Yugoslavia? More to come, we’re promised.

I do find it morbidly humorous that domestic civil rights organizations are suddenly crying out in protest over the possibility that people might be getting hurt in the course of waging war over in Afghanistan. The massive-sounding insurrection of Taliban POWs at Mazar-i-Sharif this week seems to be of particular interest.

What? People, hurt in a war? Who’s ever heard of that??

Similarly noteworthy is the complaint that US TV news reporting has been conspicuously soft with regards to the more tragic aspects of the current conflict. Do I need full-screen shots of gore and body parts to tell me that, no this is not a drill, “real people” are getting “real killed” in this “real war?” Granted, coverage has been squeaky-clean but… so? Are we in America so bovine, so dim-witted that we can’t process the equation “War = death” in our heads?

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While no one’s looking (except slack-offs like me), a number of court and congressional decisions continue to be made that increasingly encroach on the free flow of information on the Information Superhighway™.

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In case you haven’t heard, it’s official: the US is in economic recession. Duh.

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TV worth watching:

A+E’s The Lost Generation tells the story of 1920s “bohemian” Paris and the people who made it so remarkable. I often fantasize of living in a place/time like that one.

History Channel’s American Drinks: History in a Glass.

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This is most of the rationale why my website isn’t as visually gee-wiz, brimming-with-eyecandy as you might expect from a wannabe-designer on the ropes. (The rest of the rationale is that I’m lazy.) Maybe someday, but not today.