« Thomas Pynchon Wiki | Main | Marc English » May you live in interesting timesSaturday I hung out at Obama's Austin HQ in the morning, and visited Clinton's HQ (where Bill Clinton spoke) in the evening. Doesn't matter which candidate you're tracking or supporting: we have real hope here. In the Bush 43 years, we've seen America at its worse, and we felt we were losing it - but we never quite lost hope, because we knew there would be a change, mandatory and inevitable, after eight years of - what's a tactful word? Difficulty. We can hope for repairs, and soon. On the other hand, my friend Jasmina Tesanovic reports that "the language of war is the daily bread in Serbia. The sirens of nationalism are turned on again, as if nothing had changed in the eight years after Milosevic was toppled." Kosovo declared independence. Jasmina's hopeful, though, too: May it be a beginning of new era; may our children never have another war with their neighbors just because they speak a different language and have a different sign on their graves. The Balkans have always been a multiethnic territory. No matter who wins the battle, nobody will be able to win a war. jon posted this at 6:43 AM |
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