so one of my professors used to know someone who was George W. Bush’s former roommate at Yale. This guy was part Cherokee Indian, from Georgia, very poor, at Yale on scholarship, and he hated GW so so much because the current US president gave him plenty of grief, was drunk all the time, and so forth. basically, GW was an asshole frat guy. my professor remarked that he must have had a nervous breakdown upon hearing that his hated former roommate was running for president.. and hey, not only ran, but won!
and on another unhappiness-with-Bush-note, one of the TA’s for my anthro class had served during Desert Storm and is being excused from the current conflict because of grad school. Anthony Camara’s roommate, part of the Marines reserve, is now stationed in Iraq. I met someone else on the UCLA message boards who is supposed to be in Iraq right now, but was held back because he needed a physical.
so yep.. this war it is a-coming, and if affects each and every one of us in some way…