Awesome task (or perhaps not): bridging the perspective gap
Excerpts from my tweets (and a RT) from early this afternoon:
Death by daily repression and near-starvation or death by desperate martyrdom via the State responsible? Your choice? #Bahrain #Libya #Yemen
MD from #Bahrain: “Pls, pls, where is the #UN; we need the world; ppl are being killed in the streets!”
Ambu’s BLOCKED frm #PearlRoundabout as security shoots and kills thru haze of tear gas; MDs plead to world, “Where are you?”#Bahrain
Photo: Protesters prayed for injured comrades outside Salmaniya hospital in #Manama late on Thursday
CBCNN adverts walk-in baths ad naus, Aljazeera Eng (#176 in T-O w free prevws) covers Bah’rain & Libya crises wall-to-wall w ppl on phn .
I’m hungry. Why? Because the late start to my day began only with coffee, HIV meds, Al Jazeera,Twitter and Facebook. Such an embarrassment of riches!
I wasn’t winding up days of mourning for someone today when my country’s security forces opened fire with tear gas and live ammunition.
Am I still pissed with Bev Oda and my government’s dismissive handling of the KAIROS scandal? Sure. Rightly so.
Do I believe that I owe someone an apology, undeliverable until next Thursday, due to a slight delivered his way yesterday? Yes.
Should I surrender my gay card for again postponing a hair-cut, so desperately needed? Honey, do I really need to ask?
Am I pre-occupied with one leg in yesterday, given what has happened to me in the past, and the other in tomorrow, worried about what I’ll have to do in the future – meanwhile, as the off-colour saying goes, “pissing all over today”? (As Cenk, on The Young Turks would say, “Of COOOOURSE!”)
