With her usual impeccable timing...

[vulgarweed]

Mom's going to Turkey in November.

I'll just reiterate my usual advice, which she knows well: flash the green passport, not the blue one. And if you stub your toe, make sure to cuss in Portuguese, not English.

Me? Well, I'm still broke, but G installed Google Earth on my computer this weekend! I am consumed by travel fever. Google Earth is exactly to real travel as cybersex is to real sex.

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[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

shitting in the international punch bowl must be the best term anyone has ever brought up for it.

I had the "moral authority" discussion with an American exchange student a while ago. He insisted the world still owes America for putting an end to the nazis in WWII, so everything else, including Iraq and anything that may come in the future is by default okay. I mean, WTF? I told him he was a moral authority to the same degree that I was a racist mass-murderer. (Not at all.)

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

The Russians did as much as we did to stop Hitler, but that didn't mean Stalin was an OK guy.

[shadowvalkyrie.livejournal.com]

Good parallel! And I generally hate people who pretend there are "good" states and "bad" states and moreover, as if that wasn't bad enough, take whatever arbitrary criteria they have for that view as a given historical constant. *eyeroll*

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

And in thinking about it more, I've figured out why that "argument" incenses me: it's so childish!

"I got on the honor roll that one time, so I can do anything I want from now on!"