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16 December 1998
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this writing just after midnight is a little odd. i've thought about writing about a given day under its date. but that kinda leads to recapping the day, and i often like to write things as they happen. i s'pose i could just start timestamping all my entries. any thoughts?
earlier george was talking about leaving the security blanket and comfort of home, and how he kinda feels that that is a good aspect of this move. i responded, trying to express my thought with a sweeping gesture of arms around my head, that my security blanket is a part of my worldview. it follows me wherever i go. i do occasionally get caught up in life and lose sight of that, but it's always there. it causes me not to ever really feel that i'm terribly far from home. he said yeah, i think of home as only a couple hours away (by plane) if i had to go back. but for me it's even less rational. spatiality doesn't have the same meaning in my world. emotionally, anyway. physically there's still something to it.
okay, i don't really want to talk politics, but it can't be helped. i've never liked bill clinton. i remember watching his first presidential acceptance speech and thinking it was the stupidest thing i had ever heard. thinking how on earth did this man get to be president of the united states? he has occasionally pretended to have a conviction about something important, only to back down to political pressure. the only thing he's ever done that i have an ounce of respect for is draft dodging during the viet nam war. that said, i don't think these whole impeachment proceedings have any real ground.
but, to find out that the us has started bombing iraq, today, the day before the impeachment debate was s'posed to begin. that just makes me physically ill. even if it has nothing to do with clinton's own political problems, it is wrong. bombing civilians (and that's what is happening, there is no such thing as a "smart" bomb) in a third-world country, is just wrong. nothing will change. and if he did call for this strike because of his own problems. that's an impeachable offense. that's abuse of power. for that he should be thrown out of office.
earlier george was talking about leaving the security blanket and comfort of home, and how he kinda feels that that is a good aspect of this move. i responded, trying to express my thought with a sweeping gesture of arms around my head, that my security blanket is a part of my worldview. it follows me wherever i go. i do occasionally get caught up in life and lose sight of that, but it's always there. it causes me not to ever really feel that i'm terribly far from home. he said yeah, i think of home as only a couple hours away (by plane) if i had to go back. but for me it's even less rational. spatiality doesn't have the same meaning in my world. emotionally, anyway. physically there's still something to it.
okay, i don't really want to talk politics, but it can't be helped. i've never liked bill clinton. i remember watching his first presidential acceptance speech and thinking it was the stupidest thing i had ever heard. thinking how on earth did this man get to be president of the united states? he has occasionally pretended to have a conviction about something important, only to back down to political pressure. the only thing he's ever done that i have an ounce of respect for is draft dodging during the viet nam war. that said, i don't think these whole impeachment proceedings have any real ground.
but, to find out that the us has started bombing iraq, today, the day before the impeachment debate was s'posed to begin. that just makes me physically ill. even if it has nothing to do with clinton's own political problems, it is wrong. bombing civilians (and that's what is happening, there is no such thing as a "smart" bomb) in a third-world country, is just wrong. nothing will change. and if he did call for this strike because of his own problems. that's an impeachable offense. that's abuse of power. for that he should be thrown out of office.