Entering Ajay’s Mind

(Okay, so I don’t actually believe those commercials that people should feel obligated or responsibility for other people and their actions, but it makes a catchy title.

But honestly. The polls show the majority of people in this country are against the Iraq war. I’ll assume (without any empirical evidence) that largely applies to my FB friends. So, why vote for a War candidate? I’m afraid that we often let the media write history for us, rather than remembering what had actually happened.
By that, I mean we have had (except possibly Carter?) nothing but war presidents since WW2. Lest we forget one of the most famous leaders (who was of course shut up, because people largely shutdown when they are left leader-less) in our country, he said:

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today — my own country. - Martin Luther King Jr.

But I’m not the best spoken or most thoughtful, so check out this video which touches on social movements and the future of our country.
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I could have blogged about my time at the WTS, or in Delhi generally, but this was interesting (and important?) enough that I thought I’d just make sure it was online+accessible to folks. To see my pictures though, you can check on Flickr. Oh, and after typing this out I realize that it’s already online! Eh, maybe i’ll add more to this post or change it later on.

“Following a successful World Toilet Summit-2007 (WTS 2007) it has been noted that there is a need to accelerate the progress on achieveing the MDG on sanitation by 2015. The participants advocate to reconfirmation of the pledge that nations took at Johannesburg in 2002. WTS 2007 adopts the Delhi Declaration on Sanitation- 2007:
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Subject: HSU degree granted!

Okay, maybe it’s not so exciting to you, but since the most important parts are short:

Dear Ajay,

On behalf of Humboldt State University, congratulations on earning your degree! Your official date of graduation is 16-May-07.
[.. extra stuff you don't care about...]
Congratulations again, and best wishes for future success and personal satisfaction.

(Sent by one Travis Brunner, but signed by Hillary A. Dashiell of the Registrar’s office, which I think is a funny inconsistency, plus it’s from the former’s personal HSU address. Silly ppl. heh)  (PS: As aforementioned, my Grad pics are online.)
I do like that last line though.. isn’t that what it’s all about?

So I started thinking, “Nah, they wouldn’t want to read about me graduating, my degree and all that (esp since so many of the FB’ers reading this are still in “school”)” and thought instead of quoting another old email I found, fwd’d from my school’s President, Rollin Richmond, but originally from the Graduation Alliance Pledge Coordinators. (more…)

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There are many blog posts that I have been meaning to do, and this one probably would have been one to be time-expired by now, but no, it turns out its not.  I’ll keep this relatively short of my commentary though.  (relatively speaking) Nobody is really talking about Hurricane Katrina anymore,  which may speak to many things.  Our much-spoken of MTV-like attention spans, the fact that we’re always obsessed with “moving on,” maybe even that we don’t like to think about things that are wrong in the world that we can actually do something about, because that takes work, and (supposedly) we’re a lazy people.  Hm, scrap that last bit, I’ll think that over later. (more…)

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Not really much to say..

A few weeks ago Jen Majka (one of my boss’s coworkers) sent out this article from the UCLA Newspaper.. Blame Asians @ UCLA.. (and possibly related, that HigherEd is Too Asian, which is not from a student, but a publication!)
Then a few days ago she sent an article about the UCLA Student getting tasered (Story on ABCnews) Here’s some good stuff, a story on Slashdot! about it, with a video link.

Better yet! my friend Ali, who is well-written, has done a good writeup, with video included.

THEN the muslim Imams got booted from the plane for praying.
Now Michael Richards is .. being very representative of reality, I guess? Check out “Kramer” on video.
(That could relate to the Students Storming Minutemen Presentation at Columbia time.. a sort of, it’s been labeled the “free speech” vs fascism debate)

Feel free to give better URLs, I have to jet, a bit of a hurry now!

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