Other than not potentially inhibiting and obstructing the efforts of firefighters trying to put out a fire? Maybe to avoid them doing this to your car:
Yea, I don't have much today for ya'll.
I'm nervously eager and excited about starting my new job in t-minus seven business days: relatedly, expect to see some new exciting stuff on MySpace soon in 2008!
It lightly snowed for most of the day here in New York. I've said it before, but even I'm amused that for someone who grew up in Alaska, you would think snow would be old news to me. Not. I'm as excited at the first snow day as I am the first warm day of the spring. The latter is hormonal, and the former sentimentality, I think.
I'm still digesting a few headline news items: The recent NIE concluding that Iran actually ended its covert nuclear weapons program in 2003; President Hugo Chavez's power grab failure in Venezuela; and that crazy mofo with the machete in Alaska. Iran has consistently made the Bush Administration look like amateurs in the realm of diplomacy and intelligence, albeit amateurs with over 5500 active nuclear warheads ready to launch at any instance. Chavez experienced his first substantial domestic defeat (although it was a razor thin victory for the opposition) and it'll be interesting to see how he reacts in the next months. No doubt the fingers of the US was involved in election day shenanigans (Google Allende, Chile, and CIA if you don't know), but I was glad to see a populace not so overwhelmed to not vote down a bad thing (no term limits). Also, the fact that Chavez lost might demonstrate that the fearful specter of authoritarianism might have been slightly overstated here. I'm trying to outline a theory that a strong socialist presence on the international stage is good for the US and our free market system, because socialism's populist policies acts as our conscience (See current health care mess) as well as a convenient and constant foil--the vague "other"--to our national "identity." It's good to see Venezuela step up to bat and fill the void left by the USSR, Cuba, and China. North Korea is basically one big freakin' cult, but a cult with a trigger finger on thousands of missiles and rockets aimed at South Korea and Japan. The topic of North Korea is one I haven't heard the Democrat presidential hopefuls discuss too much. Maybe one of my more brilliant readers can enlighten me. Kaizar? Sam?
Okay, that was fun. Let's do it again, ok?
Bye.