Recumbent Politics
Jun. 7th, 2007 03:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mhuzzellLast week, and Monday and Tuesday, I went around applying to jobs. Now I am in the nether-world of waiting for them to contact me, wondering at what point it is appropriate to drop by again and ask them. Saturday, maybe, for the places I applied to this week?
I feel like I should be doing something useful, but instead I've mostly just been lazing around the house. Not just lazing--I've unpacked all that I can until Norah moves out; I've cleaned as much as I can with a broken vaccuum cleaner; I've figured out how to fix the vaccuum cleaner, but lack the screwdriver I need to do so; I've experimented with trying to cook--but mostly I've just sat with my computer, as evidenced by the excessive length of my last entry.
I wish I could've gone to the G8 protest this year, but I'm starting to worry for my friends who did. I've been reading reports of the protests, and it sounds like it's been pretty tense, and getting worse. Police are using batons, tear gas and water cannons. So far, 700 people have been arrested, 6 have been sentenced.
On the other hand, the BBC has a meagerly reassuring story saying Bush is starting to compromise on Climate Change. Below a photo of an uncomfortably-smiling Angela Merkel and a confused-looking GW Bush: "Ahead of the meeting US President George W Bush proposed the establishment of his own process of climate control negotiations."
Throughout the build-up to the G8, the White House's line of opposition to plans to combat climate change is that it would compromise the autonomy of the US. Which, phrased like that, almost seems like a valid point. But the way they've been saying it, Bush sounds like a petulant child who refuses to do as he's told just because he's being told to do so, even though it's clearly in his own interest. As with such children, maybe the way to combat this stubbornness is to get him to think it was all his idea in the first place. Then again, that would get reported on the American news, and further inflate the American ignorantsia's opinions of themselves.
I feel like I should be doing something useful, but instead I've mostly just been lazing around the house. Not just lazing--I've unpacked all that I can until Norah moves out; I've cleaned as much as I can with a broken vaccuum cleaner; I've figured out how to fix the vaccuum cleaner, but lack the screwdriver I need to do so; I've experimented with trying to cook--but mostly I've just sat with my computer, as evidenced by the excessive length of my last entry.
I wish I could've gone to the G8 protest this year, but I'm starting to worry for my friends who did. I've been reading reports of the protests, and it sounds like it's been pretty tense, and getting worse. Police are using batons, tear gas and water cannons. So far, 700 people have been arrested, 6 have been sentenced.
On the other hand, the BBC has a meagerly reassuring story saying Bush is starting to compromise on Climate Change. Below a photo of an uncomfortably-smiling Angela Merkel and a confused-looking GW Bush: "Ahead of the meeting US President George W Bush proposed the establishment of his own process of climate control negotiations."
Throughout the build-up to the G8, the White House's line of opposition to plans to combat climate change is that it would compromise the autonomy of the US. Which, phrased like that, almost seems like a valid point. But the way they've been saying it, Bush sounds like a petulant child who refuses to do as he's told just because he's being told to do so, even though it's clearly in his own interest. As with such children, maybe the way to combat this stubbornness is to get him to think it was all his idea in the first place. Then again, that would get reported on the American news, and further inflate the American ignorantsia's opinions of themselves.
