Just a quick one to note a couple of good reads I have had this weekend - just newspaper articles, but of the sort that attract my attention, so much so in fact that I have printed copies out for myself (testing out the new whizz bang scanner printer we have gotten).
This one from the Guardian is basically about the moment where the glass suddenly looks half empty instead of half full, the straw has finally broken the camel's back and such. With wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon - not to mention the not quite genocide in Darfur, nor the probable conflict between Ethiopia and the Islamist factions in Somalia - and North Korea firing missiles, Iran possibly building nukes, along with Gaza being hit by 300 artillery shells per day. Oh, and Condi preaching to the Cubans that they will have democracy soon - because it has been such a hit in Baghdad - oh, civil war is a possibility in Iraq according to the top brass in the Pentagon, whatever happened to Strategy for Victory?
It's all too much to take in sometimes - and V in particular says that I should stay away from newspapers, or at least the international pages in them, and focus on the positives on a more local level. Or even stay away from Australian or Brisbane news and focus on friends and family. Sometimes I would love to just be able to go to mySpace instead of the BBC news site on my web travels, but I am just not hard wired that way.
The second article that has caught my attention this weekend is from the New York Times, about men without college/university qualifications having less chance of getting married than a generation ago, whereas the reverse is true for women - these being American statistics of course. Hmm, I don't have a university qualification...
An interesting article, but hard to summarise or paraphrase it - I don't want to say that women are more financially independent or picky or anything, based on one or two comments in the piece LOL. Or to say that the job market for 'uneducated' men - boy, I dislike that phrase, as if going to lectures is the only sort of education you can have - is more unstable than it was back in the day, or despite how intelligent a person may be, they could never be management material without a series of letters after their names. Or to generalise about how men who don't settle down are therefore always afraid of commitment...
And of course, with reports like the NYT piece, I look at myself, and inwardly shudder.
I am my own worst critic though, in all aspects of my life.
Paul
This one from the Guardian is basically about the moment where the glass suddenly looks half empty instead of half full, the straw has finally broken the camel's back and such. With wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon - not to mention the not quite genocide in Darfur, nor the probable conflict between Ethiopia and the Islamist factions in Somalia - and North Korea firing missiles, Iran possibly building nukes, along with Gaza being hit by 300 artillery shells per day. Oh, and Condi preaching to the Cubans that they will have democracy soon - because it has been such a hit in Baghdad - oh, civil war is a possibility in Iraq according to the top brass in the Pentagon, whatever happened to Strategy for Victory?
It's all too much to take in sometimes - and V in particular says that I should stay away from newspapers, or at least the international pages in them, and focus on the positives on a more local level. Or even stay away from Australian or Brisbane news and focus on friends and family. Sometimes I would love to just be able to go to mySpace instead of the BBC news site on my web travels, but I am just not hard wired that way.
The second article that has caught my attention this weekend is from the New York Times, about men without college/university qualifications having less chance of getting married than a generation ago, whereas the reverse is true for women - these being American statistics of course. Hmm, I don't have a university qualification...
An interesting article, but hard to summarise or paraphrase it - I don't want to say that women are more financially independent or picky or anything, based on one or two comments in the piece LOL. Or to say that the job market for 'uneducated' men - boy, I dislike that phrase, as if going to lectures is the only sort of education you can have - is more unstable than it was back in the day, or despite how intelligent a person may be, they could never be management material without a series of letters after their names. Or to generalise about how men who don't settle down are therefore always afraid of commitment...
And of course, with reports like the NYT piece, I look at myself, and inwardly shudder.
I am my own worst critic though, in all aspects of my life.
Paul
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