{"id":66,"date":"2005-10-24T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=66"},"modified":"2005-10-24T17:16:06","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T17:16:06","slug":"oh-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/?p=66","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"

Between Hurricane Wilma<\/a>, the outcome of the Rove leak scandal investigation<\/a>, and now the rocket attack on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad<\/a>, how is a fella supposed to know if G.W. Bush is ready to bring the noise with Syria? It’s going to be a busy news week, to be sure. So busy, in fact, I don’t think I’m even going to have time to find out who Alan Greenspan’s replacement<\/a> is going to be.<\/p>\n

In looking for more news coverage on the aforementioned Syria issue, I stumbled upon this news item<\/a> about the editor of a magazine in Kabul being sentenced to two years in prison for a couple articles published in his magazine Women’s Rights<\/em>. I believe one of the articles suggested that apostasy should not be a crime punishable by death and the other advocated gender-equality in punishments for adultery. The New York Times article<\/a> on the subject claims that the prosecution was actually initially calling for the editor to be executed. I’m not going to be so bold and chauvinistic as to level a blanket criticism on a country trying to govern based on Islamic law<\/a>, but when I read something like this about the new Afghanistan, I have to wonder: so, like, how uptight were<\/em> the Taliban when they were in power?<\/p>\n

But back to the Syrian thing…if you hear anything substantial, let me know, ok? Because I’m not ready to trust just any knuckle-head with a laptop<\/a> on this one.<\/p>\n

[UPDATE: some members of our household think I’m jumping the gun here and should hold my horses until after the UN Security Council briefing<\/a> on Tuesday.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Between Hurricane Wilma, the outcome of the Rove leak scandal investigation, and now the rocket attack on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, how is a fella supposed to know if G.W. Bush is ready to bring the noise with Syria? … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plutino.net\/journals\/ethan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}