It's been a barren time in this space for the past few weeks. School, disillusionment and laziness have all combined to postpone my postings and linkings for a while now.

It's really something to read about what happened in a downtown university here , with a miscreant putting up hate-filled postings around campus, with racist messages and death threats against both Jews and Muslims. Apparently this guy is trying to provoke some big fight or conflict between those groups and it's good that he was caught. Why would he do something like this? Out of pure spite or malice maybe, but it seems like maybe there's something more. This is ignorance of the extreme degree and I'm glad he got caught.

In other worldly news, fighting rages on in Iraq, especially in Fallujah this past week where US forces are mounting a heavy campaign to crush local resistance and regain control of the city. Fallujah was where the bodies of 4 American military 'contractors' were mutilated this April and led to heavy fighting and then a virtual siege by US Marines and Iraqi government troops until eventually ceding the city to local resistance forces.
Also British forces are being asked to be sent near troubled areas to assist the US military in holding control. There are lots of oppostition to this move as it suggests that the Americans, to use a cliche,having bitten off more than they can chew,now need outside assistance to reach their own goals of winning their blatant and unjust war on the Iraqis.

There's lots of other news/ injustice happening around us but that's it for right now.