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Friday, September 9th, 2005

BRIEF AND DISJOINTED PERSONAL RUMINATIONS

First, work is a little chaotic today – the day is racing by but the interruptions have prevented me from accomplishing much of significance other than talking to someone who is a Hurricane Katrina evacuee. That was actually interesting and I’d have been happy to continue the discussion longer than time allowed.

Secondly, I have a pretty good idea for a post but I’m a little stuck on the articulation of the concept. Usually, I find that reading or doing something on entirely unfamiliar will subsequently shock my brain into moving forward. Interestingly, the processing must be either subconscious or nonverbal but it seldom fails to act as a catalyst.

Thirdly, I’m under the weather and feel a sense of physical malaise. Enough so that I declined social invitations to go drinking with my primarily twenty-something female co-workers and also my more mature, longstanding, cronies who will be out celebrating the launch of a start-up venture. Sadly, going to bed early appears to be the attractive option today. Ugh.

Friday, September 9th, 2005

AN IMPLICIT VILLAIN OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY

From a news item posted by Younghusband at Coming Anarchy, we learn that Tongsun Park, the bagman of the Koreagate scandal during the Carter administration who somehow escaped prosecution ( the Democratic Party controlling the White House and both Houses of Congress back then had nothing to do with such prosecutorial leniency by the DOJ) resurfaced as Saddam’s bagman in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal.

Errr… don’t we even try to keep track of these shadowy cut-outs and jet-setting intriguers like Park, Marc Rich, Manucher Ghorbanifar and so on ? Why didn’t Park’s antics in the Oil for Food program set off any Counterintelligence alarm bells ? You would think that a guy who was essentially caught bribing key figures in the House of Representatives being seen waltzing around UN bigwigs might have rated some attention.


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