2.5 days

nin - ghosts has just been released, i went for the $10 (alright, around $20 with shipping) 2-cd's 'cause i likes meatspace. i listened to a bit of it and decided that it's good enough that i'm not just pitching my show of support. i'd support him anyway, but i'm happier to get something out of the deal.

at least hear the guy out :)

2.5 days, and i got through them in two. a bit of sleep deprivation, nothing more coffee won't fix. the only issue that's problematic in a big way is nystire, and although i'm still shocked by him i'm beginning to feel more pity than distaste.

the thing that particularly gets my goat is that when i talk with him as i do with everyone else he takes offense and tells me to stop raising my voice. that my tone of voice upsets him. does he want me to sing when i speak?
i'm actually fairly surprised that he managed to survive his childhood, and i keep wondering if giving him a solid thumping every morning would give rise to an improvement.

speaking of violence, a bunch of us had one of those political arguments this morning, with one sad case going on about how we need to protect the enemy's women and children.

i've repeated myself on this topic on numerous occasions - we're human. we don't stop until we really understand the threat, and that goes for our enemies too.

we can't negotiate with our enemies, because if there were grounds for talking we'd have been sitting around a table ages ago. throughout history wars have been fought between people of opposing thoughts, and a war cannot be fought in a genteel manner.

war has an objective, and that objective is to break the enemy's will. you cannot break the enemy's will without hitting where it hurts, and hitting fighters who are already prepared to die (and in this case, only too happy to do so) really doesn't cut it. what will hurt them is a lack of drinking water, electricity (although we're still giggling at their lack of ability to fake a power-outage successfully), and safety for their women and children.

"ooh - such monstrous behaviour!" i hear you say. i understand the lack of sympathy for the poor sods in sderot, and the lack of sympathy for the big, bad israeli soldiers (poor kids just want to get the hell out of there), and i understand that the media forms your opinions so that you don't have to.

what i mostly understand is the convenience of sitting in an armchair and fantasizing about a world where violence is unnecessary, but this is not that world. the only way to reduce the bodycount (which hasn't been dropping in the last few months), is to bring the entire story to an end.

and a ceasefire won't do it. and taking out their chiefs won't do it. talking won't do it. excessive force will. pity we don't have the nuts. because until we begin to strike fear into their hearts, we're just eating rockets and trying to pretend that the problem will go away.

we're a little better than the americans, but not much. we really need to forget all this peace and brotherly love with our neighbours and get back with the program - there's a time to kill.

the secret came up at work today. my TL's a fan, and i'm kinda freaked out by this.

the first evidence that all is not as jack thompson claims. we all know he's a moron, and more importantly that he's wrong, but this sort of thing is a much better direction to move in.

dance dance revolution has some very serious fans!