Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Your assignments...should you choose to accept them
1. Grab the nearest book
2. Open the book to page 123
3. Find the fourth sentence
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences (#5,6,7) on your blog and/or in the comments sections here (along with these instructions)
5. Don’t go digging for that “cool” or “intellectual” book on your shelf. I know you were thinking about it. Just grab what is closest. No cheating.
6. Identify the book and tell us a little about it
(P.S. I found this game at Deb’s blog: http://outonthelimb.blogspot.com)
Here’s mine:
With the tacit approval of the Nixon Administration, Yahya Khan used his U.S.-made arsenal to brutally crack down on the independence movement. Thousands were slaughtered in the first few days. By the time it was over, ten million Bengalis had fled into India, and an estimated 1.5 milion were killed.
...from the highly recommended Boomerang by Mark Zepezauer:
(http://tinyurl.com/dlpxg)
Background: I met Mark in Santa Cruz two years ago when we were both part of the One Dance Summit (along with Michael Parenti, Cynthia McKinney, William Blum, Stan Goff, Greg Elich, and many others). He handed me a copy of Boomerang in which he had written: Mickey Z.: Love yer show babe. Mark
More from Boomerang:
The history of America’s relationship with Iran illustrates the distance between the claim that we stand for democracy and freedom throughout the world and what the U.S. actually does when that principle is stacked up against another interest: controlling the spigot of the world’s oil supply ... The blowback from U.S. interventions in Iran will reverberate for years to come ... The disregard for the disastrous (and largely foreseeable) consequences of these policies should be recalled every single time that we are tempted to intervene abroad. But among many consistent threads through U.S. foreign policy is a complete indifference to the carnage wreaked by our interventions.
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Hooray: It’s Tell-a-Friend Thursday
Yay...
I have a very simple assignment for those visiting the site today:
Tell a friend.
Convince someone you know to stop by and have a look around. Thanks...
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Expendable Assignment Alert:
Our very own Rosemarie Jackowski (RMJ) has a new, must-read piece here: http://urlsnip.com/215790
Any and all suggestions to help RMJ are welcome and appreciated...
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