Rabble Rousing & Moral Ambiguities

Get ready for the comeback.

I'm back - at least that's what I'm telling myself today. I'm not entirely concerned who reads, or more likely, doesn't read, this blog, rather it truly is an exercise in narcissism. I want to be able to read my memories, and perhaps share them with others.

I fear that often I will be grandiloquent and pedantic, but I will try to be equally superficial and glib. I will include stories about my life, both real and imaginary, include inanities I find amusing on the Internet, and try to have some small sense of social justice and community activism by adding a strain of Minnesotan+Egyptian+World news items. Here's hopin' for a broadening sense of international awareness.

In the news:

Minnesota: Oh, Michelle Bachmann, distinguished representative from the North - how do you even have functioning motor skills let alone the time and energy to create such absurd fantasies? I think it's time for another lobotomy....

Egypt: April 6th is Youth Movement Day - both "Day of Anger" and "Day of Hope." But really it will probably just be another day when nothing really happens except the Army is deployed to Midan Tahrir and some members of the proletariat are arrested, abused, held without habeas corpus - nothing to challenge the status quo or bother the international media....of course not.

Egypt: The population at AUC has never pretended to represent the average Egyptian, but we already knew that, n'est ce pas? (Remember when they wanted their own lane on the highways?)

It's already been shown that they operate outside of Egyptian laws by representing the interests of the US. See also...

Inane: And the winner is:

"Today, I was walking out of a Starbucks and saw someone walking out behind me, thinking it would be the nice thing to do I held the door open. I was holding the door for about 30 seconds before realizing I was holding the door for my own shadow. FML"