For Carolyn, because she misses it.
molly.caitlin
Initially, this blog was an exercise in narcissism. That changed. It has become a place to celebrate my friends and talk about the things that interest and amuse me, as well as a repository for excerpts from my stream of consciousness. So, it's still narcissistic, but more outwardly focused than originally planned.
Should you have something nice to say, you can drop me a line at molly [dot] caitlin [at] gmail [dot] com.
I hope reading it is fun for you.
May 16
May 15
It seems a near certainty that I’ll never be able to post during the day ever again, but coming home to 23 pages of your thoughts to look through is mighty fun after busting my ass all day. I just tried reading a diet book, got depressed and ended up on here instead. Reading about ways to limit the amount and variety of your food intake is not happy-making. “It’ll never taste as good as skinny feels” is truly a false statement. The person who said that was probably trying to talk themselves away from a glazed doughnut.
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May 13
Mascara?
You know, I log onto Tumblr intending to write an absurd post about my new mascara, and then Jessie comes along […]. Thanks, Jessie. Thanks a lot.
No! Please write about the mascara!
Well, if you say so…
Shu Uemura’s Fiber Xtension mascara changed my life this afternoon. I have thick fringe around my eyes like Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It’s better than fake eyelashes. Best bedroom eyes I’ve ever had.
Constance and I are meeting up with one of our besties in West Palm Beach in a couple weeks. She’ll be there from London visiting her grandmother. AND she’ll be preggers. She’s having a second baby. Christ. The woman is ambitiously populating the world with incredibly good-looking little people. I applaud her efforts.
I’m slightly worried about all the money I just sucked out of my bank account, but I’m not going to devote any more thought to it. There isn’t a finite amount of money in the universe. Some extra currency will find its way into my bank account. Power of positive thinking.
The new job is getting better and better, which runs in direct contrast to most jobs I’ve had. I’m hopeful. Also, they have a Wii and an Xbox in the conference room…
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190 Avenue B (@ 12th Street)
Their blue crab roll is like eating summer vacation. Get yourself there pronto.
Were Americans deceived into the Iraq war?
There’s a common perceptiont that the Bush administration somehow decieved the public in the run up to the Iraq war. It’s most simply expressed on the bumpersticker, “Bush Lied. People died,” though the argument is made with more nuance elsewhere, notably in Jon Stewarts interview with Douglas Feith on Monday.
I think this whole “If I knew now what I knew then” argument is a bunch of self-righteous handwashing. Americans overwhelmingly supported the Iraq war. The arguments presented to the Americans may have been incomplete in detail—but the essence was conveyed pretty clearly. The Bush administration promised a war. What did you think it would be, a tea-party?
Sure, it was claimed that Iraq had a few more chemical weapons than they turned out to have, but not that there was an imminent threat to the United States. Perhaps it was insinuated that there was some link between Saddam and Al Qaeda—but are we really going to support a war based on insinuation?
Has anything happened in Iraq that shouldn’t be expected from a war? What alleged misrepresentation would have to have been true to make this whole thing a good idea?
The Bush Administration did deceive the International public in the run-up to the commencement of the Iraq War and afterward. Under the direction of Rep. Henry A. Waxman a searchable collection of 237 specific misleading statements made by Bush Administration officials about the threat posed by Iraq was created (many are pre-invasion and post-invasion, pre-2004 election statements). The database contains statements that were misleading based on what was known to the Administration at the time the statements were made, and explanations as to why they were misleading. It does not include statements that appear mistaken only in hindsight.
While the majority of Americans apparently did support Bush in 2003 and 2004, we will never know whether these individuals would have had an alternate mindset if they had access to material information that was withheld to the public at the time.
I think it’s unfair to say that the “If I knew now what I knew then” argument is a bunch of self-righteous handwashing.” The American public wasn’t fully informed and it didn’t have access to the full truth when it mattered the most.
What is unexpected about this war, is that it was based on irrational conclusions and behavior that resulted in the mass killings and torture of innocent human beings.
You know, I log onto Tumblr intending to write an absurd post about my new mascara, and then Jessie comes along and writes something so astute and well-informed that I get shamed out of it. Thanks, Jessie. Thanks a lot.