Juan Cole has a wonderful column on the "10 easy steps" to creating a dictatorship. I fear we in the US are going down the wrong path with our obsession with "security." Freedom these days seems to
scare more people than captivity.
Meanwhile, I learned from Facebook last night that my oldest child and her husband have taken another diving vacation. Guess where? Egypt! Now I know that Sharm El Sheikh (one of their favorite diving venues) is not Cairo, but still....Nothing slows that woman down, however. She adores diving, is a registered diving instructor in Scotland, and she has loved diving in the Red Sea especially.
Be safe, dear Peggy and Henry.
Juan Cole might not think of this one: allow part of your country to believe it is only tangentially connected to the rest so do not have to think about, worry over matters outside of latest music and food carts.
ReplyDeleteRead your comment at TBTAM on tampon ad. Sent to daughter to think about for her 8 year old. Yours was a very progressive Catholic school?
I'd say College of St. Benedict, where I learned how to insert a tampon was progressive, but a faculty member was not the "coach." It was another student. Don't think the RC church was tying itself in knots over tampons, anyway, in those days. Or maybe it was, but who paid attention?
ReplyDeleteP.S. "Only tangentially connected to the rest..." That's how various parts of the country perceive things now, isn't it?
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