Gogl's Journal: The beauty of procrastination

Okay, so I'm procrastinating at the moment, whee.

First off, two trivial things:

1) Having /. as my background is sort of convenient, but it does make start up time a lot bigger (I just booted, not because of any computer issue, but because I accidentally hit the master switch for my room and turned off all my outlets in one fell swoop).

2) In the near future I do intend to actually explore other people's journals and build a friends list and partake in the journal community and such. Honest. It's on my todo list. Just give me a sec.

And now for a not so trivial thing:

Okay, courtesy of my new Slashdot-as-desktop setup, I've been a lot more in touch with the news (not the Slashdot news, the *real* news over at Google news, as I can get there in one convenient click from my custom Slashbox), and yeah... it looks like war with Iraq is getting to be pretty inevitable. This latest incident of Saddam basically thumbing his nose at the UN gives Dubya just the rhetoric he needs to preach war. Already protests have sprung up in some places, mostly in Britain and such, but the IMF protesters in DC (at least one of whom I know, whee) apparently also protested war with Iraq, marching on Cheney's house.

Anyway, the reason I bring this up is simple: do whatever you can. Yes, you're just an individual, so am I, but you still count. If there is a protest locally, go to it. Write letters to senators and such. Make yourself be heard.

This is, of course, assuming that you're against the war, which I very much hope you are. I generally try to be objective, but right now I am far too impatient/lazy to explain my logic here, suffice it to say that I can see absolutely no good reason to go to war with Iraq, and I believe such a course of action would actually have quite negative effects. In any case, if you disagree with me so be it, and if you think you can provide any sort of reason for disagreeing with me feel free to try. But yeah...

Not a lot else to say. Boo to war with Iraq. The only shot we have is if we make it clear to Bush that he does *not* have public support on this. Even then it might still happen, but probably not...