Friday, April 11, 2003 :::
Call it "Texas Hold 'em".
The Military issued its soldiers decks of playing cards featuring the faces of 55 most wanted Iraqi officials. Somehow, I don't think these decks would go over as well as decks of cards from Hooters, but the hope is that they will be helpful in bringing escaped officials to justice.
::: posted by Andrewski at 12:54 PM
Monday, April 07, 2003 :::
Berkeley student elections are upon us and... well, who cares, really?
There's far more interesting stuff going on in the world outside Berkeley right now.
Anyways, here's a Salon.com article that praises The Daily Show for being hysterically funny, brilliantly written, and timely. Lucky for those of us on the Internet, you can watch all Daily Show segments here.
Also interesting, today CNN did a story on bloggers during wartime. There was a short feature on Where is Raed?, the blog I mentioned yesterday.
And finally, I'd like to give a big Albatross Perch welcome to the Google users who stumbled onto my website with the following search strings:
pictures of iraqi torture victims
massage handjobs details
Neither of which I actually have, by the way. They came for the handjob details, but stayed for the informative and thought-provoking online journalism.
::: posted by Andrewski at 10:31 PM
For those of you who are anxiously watching the War in Iraq on TV and in the papers, check out the additional perspective that blogs can provide.
This blog is written by a civilian blogger in Iraq named "Salam", who is in favor of democracy and does not support Saddam. But he's anxiously watching his country buckle under the pressure of an American invasion, watching Al-Jazeera TV and reporting on the day to day life in Iraq. Salam also posts a link to this breathtaking satellite photo of Baghdad and points out a few landmarks.
My favorite part of this blog was Salam's rant on the war, from March 16:
No one inside Iraq is for war (note I said war not a change of regime), no human being in his right mind will ask you to give him the beating of his life, unless you are a member of fight club that is, and if you do hear Iraqi (in Iraq, not expat) saying “come on bomb us” it is the exasperation and 10 years of sanctions and hardship talking. There is no person inside Iraq (and this is a bold, blinking and underlined inside) who will be jumping up and down asking for the bombs to drop. We are not suicidal you know, not all of us in any case.
Imagine: Iraqis know what "Fight Club" is! They're like Americans, just yearning to be free. Anyways, I highly reccomend reading Salam's blog.
::: posted by Andrewski at 2:21 AM
