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Saturday, March 29, 2003 |
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Today I have found myself feeling more hopeful and confident than I've been in a while. A doctor had given me a 4 week supply of Paxil back on Feb. 20th, when I was having all kinds of back tightness and tightness in the lower chest and left side. It seemed to keep in check a lot of feelings of depression, but I always wonder about drug induced "equilibriums" like that. I wonder what other kinds of impact or "flattening out" it causes, and how that might affect creativity and energy, all having to do with a certain intensity related to the emotions. I'm glad I'm off of all that (now it's just cold remedies for this cold that started out as a stomach virus, and has since "gone to my head" with the runny nose and sinus congestion, and tiring out after only 4 or 5 hours every day). I got some positive feelings out of my meeting this morning (good possibility that I can do some things with some CBF folks) and that perhaps things are heading in the right direction.
9:47:21 PM 
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Kenneth links to a great piece exposing some of the most common prowar arguments and their holes
9:29:57 PM
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This piece pointed to by Dave Winer and a few others is outstanding, particularly the punch at the end:
So I put this on as a modest riposte to men with flags in their lapels who shoot missiles from the safety of Washington think tanks, or argue that sacrifice is good as long as they don't have to make it, or approve of bribing governments to join the coalition of the willing (after they first stash the cash). I put it on to remind myself that not every patriot thinks we should do to the people of Baghdad what bin Laden did to us. The flag belongs to the country, not to the government. And it reminds me that it's not un-American to think that war -- except in self-defense -- is a failure of moral imagination, political nerve, and diplomatic skill. Come to think of it, standing up to your government can mean standing up for your country.
9:26:05 PM
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Being a Kentucky Basketball fan, I'm a bit deflated tonight (sports wise --- otherwise it was a pretty good day ---- see the post later today) . Actually, the gloomy outlook for the Cats began Thursday night in the first half when Keith Bogans went down, and then finding out later that he had a high ankle sprain. They outlasted Wisconsin, but the road ahead looked to be too much to ask without a healthy Bogans. The one chance was to outshoot and outhustle Marquette, and give Bogans another week to heal before taking on Arizona or Kansas (Kansas won) and then the final (probably Oklahoma or Texas). But when Chuck Hayes got in foul trouble, and nothing would fall in the first half (26% shooting, including 1-8 from 3, while Marquette hit 7 of 13 from 3 and 56% overall), it was a little much. The injury really shot down the title hopes. I didn't watch the next game until the latter half of the second half. I'm really pulling for Roy now (Roy Williams of Kansas). Could well turn out that 3 of the Final 4 teams are Big 12 teams. Wonder if that's ever happened?
Funny that a movie on HBO (High Crimes) I was watching to "drown my sorrows" had Ashley Judd in it, a big Kentucky fan and constant shot of cameramen at the games. She had the Kentucky team over to her house in Nashville for barbeque last weekend when they played the first round games. Great year, Blue! A shame to have been cut short.
9:18:44 PM
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