Blog about the war, January 27th
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naomikritzerOne week from today, at 1 p.m., there will be a huge march in D.C. to protest the Iraq War.
This is not usually a political blog, though I talk about politics here occasionally. My blog reading includes a mix of personal and political, and I've noticed that the political blogs will sometimes all do a "blog for [insert cause here]" day where they'll all write about the same thing.
On January 27th, I'm going to write about the war; I'd like to encourage others with personal blogs to do the same. No doubt the political blogs are already planning a Blog Against War day that day, but this is not solely a political issue; it's also personal.
Please note that I am attempting to declare a blog about the war day. If you aren't a peacenik -- if you supported it, or continue to support it, or if you think it was a bad idea but don't think yanking everyone out right now is necessarily the right idea, or if you frankly don't know what the hell they ought to do now -- feel free to share your views, thoughts, rants, and/or muddled ramblings as well.
I figured I'd suggest it now to give everyone who wants to participate time to organize their thoughts.
This is not a tremendously high-traffic blog, so if you like the idea, feel free to pass it along.
This is not usually a political blog, though I talk about politics here occasionally. My blog reading includes a mix of personal and political, and I've noticed that the political blogs will sometimes all do a "blog for [insert cause here]" day where they'll all write about the same thing.
On January 27th, I'm going to write about the war; I'd like to encourage others with personal blogs to do the same. No doubt the political blogs are already planning a Blog Against War day that day, but this is not solely a political issue; it's also personal.
Please note that I am attempting to declare a blog about the war day. If you aren't a peacenik -- if you supported it, or continue to support it, or if you think it was a bad idea but don't think yanking everyone out right now is necessarily the right idea, or if you frankly don't know what the hell they ought to do now -- feel free to share your views, thoughts, rants, and/or muddled ramblings as well.
I figured I'd suggest it now to give everyone who wants to participate time to organize their thoughts.
This is not a tremendously high-traffic blog, so if you like the idea, feel free to pass it along.
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Date: 2007-01-22 06:25 pm (UTC)"SO I'VE BEEN READING NAOMI KRITZER'S Fires of the Faithful, and its sequel, Turning the Storm, which I've nearly finished. She's created a pretty interesting alternate world -- something like Renaissance Italy, except that the established religion seems to be a version of Wicca, only with an Inquisition of its own. I'm a fan of her work, and I've enjoyed these books, too. Fires is actually her first novel, I believe, and though her later work is more polished, these are quite good.
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That should sell out Amazon's current stock and trigger a re-order.
Okay -- and now on-topic: I think your blog-about-the-war-day is a good idea assuming it doesn't just degenerate to "Bushitler sucks!" (No, I know you wouldn't do that, but it's something I seem to see a lof of on the interweeb.) I dunno if I will write an entry dealing with the war or not. I have been thinking about it because I was originally a supporter of the war and now I wonder what ever possessed me to think this administration had the basic competence to do something right.
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Date: 2007-01-22 07:50 pm (UTC)To gather material for a blog entry on the war, I dug up some stuff I wrote on a message board back in 2003, when it was just starting. My hazy recollection was that I predicted miserable failure. As it turns out, I was waaaaaay more optimistic than was warranted -- even though I opposed the war and thought it was a bad idea. I did not expect things to go anywhere near as badly as they did. Which is pretty funny, for certain values of funny. *sigh*.