If you have the cable television or satellite, check out current_. It’s a channel that some of you may remember as being invented (much like the internet) by former Veep Al Gore. The content of current_ is contributed by the viewers of the channel and is in the form of short video “pods.” Think Youtube on television only smarter, funnier, hipper, and insert-”er”-type-adjective-here.
Also, I’ll be adding select posts from previous blogs that I’ve maintained. These posts will be backdated so they won’t show up on the main page, but will show up in their correct chronological order at the time they were originally written. Here’s one for creating my own revisionist history!
Blowback is a concept that most people today cannot understand. I linked to the Wikipedia article on the topic, but the first line sums it up.
Blowback is a term used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations. Blowback typically appears random and without cause, because the public is unaware of the secret operations that provoked it.
At this point I’m sure the Republicans in the crowd are doing their best Rudy Giuliani impersonation and demanding that I take it back, but I won’t be doing that. Blowback is real and when we start messing with other people’s countries, they are going to start messing with ours. Now I’m not saying that terrorists are justified in what they do, but I understand the reasons they do it and understand that part of the blame sits squarely on our shoulders. That’s right boys and girls, the United States isn’t the glorious force of good you’ve been led to believe it to be. We’ve got blood on our greedy little hands, just like everyone else.
There’s an old axiom that says, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” While we can’t always live by this rule, it’s a good rule to follow whenever we can. If we followed this rule, blowback wouldn’t exist in our foreign relations or our personals lives. So do what you can to prevent blowback.
