This song’s been running through my head lately. I wonder why? Buffalo Springfield:
Stuck in the middle with you
Stealers Wheel:
http://youtu.be/DohRa9lsx0Q
On the road again
Canned Heat:
Who’s provoking Ukraine unrest?
Russia is vowing to keep its troops in the Ukrainian region of Crimea in what has become Moscow’s biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War. Ukraine’s new Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk said Russian President Vladimir Putin had effectively declared war on his country. Concern is growing that more of eastern Ukraine could soon fall to the Russians. Earlier today, Russian troops seized a Ukraine Coast Guard base in the Crimean city of Balaklava. On Sunday, the new head of Ukraine’s navy defected to Russia. To talk more about the crisis in Ukraine, we speak to Yale University History Professor Timothy Snyder. His latest article for The New York Review of Books is “Ukraine: The Haze of Propaganda.” We also speak to retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern. He focused on Russian foreign policy for the first decade of his 27-year career with the Agency. He recently wrote an article titled, “Ukraine: One ‘Regime Change’ Too Many?”
Watch the full debate uninterrupted here.
Invisible-Hand-Of-The-Free-Market-Man
Tom Tomorrow:
My baby loves a bunch of authors
Moxy Fruvous:
Things that make me happy
I had the Comcast guy come to my house Saturday and move my cable connection, because my neck hurt all the time from having my coach perpendicular to the TV.
My TV (which I bought used) had a problem: big patches of red pixilation — but only when I watch broadcast channels. (Mostly, I watch Netflix.) Well, the Comcast guy tells me it’s their policy to swap out the cable box for a new one every time they service the system. “I hope it works,” I said. “Because every box I’ve ever gotten ends up not working and I have to get a new one.”
But guess what? The red patches are gone. And my neck doesn’t hurt when I watch TV anymore. It’s the little things, right?
The kids are alright
http://youtu.be/-pWLNoRZ9mg
Obama’s legacy will be as the president who let it all happen so he could get reelected:
More than 300 anti-Keystone XL protesters were arrested Sunday afternoon outside the White House in the latest push by environmentalists to convince the Obama administration to reject the Canadian oil pipeline.
The student-led protest, organized by XL Dissent, started with a rally at Georgetown University. The students marched from there to the White House — with a stop at Secretary of State John Kerry’s house along the way.
Students from 80 colleges participated in Sunday’s event, and another protest will be held on Monday in San Francisco, said Aly Johnson-Kurts, a freshman at Smith College and one of the organizers of the event.
“The youth really understand the traditional methods of creating change are not sufficient … so we needed to escalate,” said Johnson, shortly before she was arrested at the White House.
An organizer estimated the crowd at about 1,200 people. U.S. Park Police could not immediately provide a count of those arrested Sunday afternoon.
Organizers held civil disobedience training on Saturday to ensure that the demonstration went peacefully.
The crowd marched down H Street, holding banners and chanting songs. Some wore painter’s scrubs with black paint on them — “hazmat suits” with oil — while others held signs with slogans like “Keystone XL: pipeline to hell” and “Keep your oil out of my soil.”A tide of energy undulated through the crowd as speaker after speaker got up to encourage them to risk arrest.
“I want you to know how important what you’re doing is,” Chris Wahmhoff, a member of the Michigan Coalition Against Tar Sands and candidate for the U.S. Senate, told the crowd, holding a block of oil sands in his hand. “The sick people in Michigan, the sick people in Canada, they’re looking to you.”“They say we are too young to make a difference, but we are proving them wrong, right here, right now,” Earthguradians Youth Director Xiuhtezcatl Martinez said to the cheering crowd.
“I think when the public sees college students coming out and getting arrested,” he said to POLITICO later, “people can say the youth came out. We were here. Because our generation will be the most impacted by whatever decision is made by the government.”
The snow was a bust
Thank God. Most of it went to South Jersey, Delaware and Maryland.
In the meantime, I’m going to try to stay awake enough to watch “The Act of Killing,” the Oscar-nominated documentary, today. Here’s a Mother Jones piece about it.
I did manage to watch “Dirty Wars,” the Jeremy Scahill documentary. (I kept falling asleep and had to watch it twice, but I did get through it.) Jeremy Scahill’s voice is very much (ironically) a drone, but push through that and watch. It’s worth it.
The older I get, the more I learn about wars and how they’re run, the more disgusted and skeptical I become. It surprises and frustrates me that people keep falling for the sales pitch, again and again.
Sick bay
Apparently I have a strep throat (white spots all over my throat and feels like I swallowed razor blades) so I will be blogging in between naps today.
Enjoy the fucking snow!