Blog of Billy

Someone on eDebate commented that instituting a draft might actually be the best way to incite resistance to the whole Iraqi occupation and make us bring in the UN faster. This reminds me of the old discussions of whether it was better to have overt or covert forms of oppression, and the whole bad high school Foucault debate. I think there's a reason that ending overt oppression always seemed to be more compelling to the critics.

I just passed the halfway mark of numbers in my phone (125/250). Not as many as I'm sure many of the little high school girls have, but I'm still feeling more popular every day.

Yesterday's West Wing was pretty pan-tastic. The discussions of free trade were pretty important, with the descriptions of losing American tech jobs (a topic near and dear to my own heart) to foreign competition as a necessary component to global trade. Since profit is by definition exploitation of surplus labor, whatever allows for the best profit margins necessairly exploits the working class the most. Eventually people will start to understand this. The only problem I'm having with West Wing is that Janel Moloney has decided to do something unfortunate with her hair. I understand that I have a particular partiality to very straight hair in the vein of mid-90's Jennifer Aniston. Still, though, I think the pictures speak for themselves:
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She's so hot.