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North Korea thoughts

A weird thing happened last night. I found myself rooting on North Korea…err, Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea. It’s a very similar feeling that I had when I visited the country. I find it quite difficult to separate the people from the government, especially when the star player of DPRK is really South Korean, born, bred, lives/works in Japan but plays for DPRK because his mother ‘feels’ like a North Korean. What that means, who knows. It’s a very odd thing for me, to be honest. It’s a bias, yes. But I know I’m not the only one.

David :: Jun.18.2010 :: World Cup, journal entry, liberty :: No Comments »

Day 2 – Something something something

People have been concerned with South Africa playing host to the biggest sporting event in the world. For years the knocks have come loud and hard. The criticism is not baseless. Security, of course, has been the big worry, and in the days leading up to the opener, those fears were not put to rest. A Chinese camera crew was ambushed on a road by brigands and a Portuguese photographer was held up in his hotel room outside of Joburg by armed gunman. What has changed is that within the week, not only were the Portuguese cameras, badges, etc recovered, the criminals were captured, tried, convicted, and sentenced! Within a week! I’m actually a little surprised that they weren’t taken out back and executed by now, but there can only be so much progress. One day when these backwater nobodies are more civilized and progressive, that process will stretch out for a few years.

David :: Jun.18.2010 :: World Cup, journal entry, liberty, travel :: No Comments »

Been awhile…

So, it has been a long time since I’ve updated my blog and my website. And I have good reason.

David :: Jan.17.2010 :: journal entry, liberty, power trippin' :: No Comments »

North Korea putting US journalists on trial this June…

Bastards…

David :: May.13.2009 :: assholes, liberty, power trippin' :: No Comments »

Ok, I’m PNG’d from Morocco…

Alright, here’s the deal. I left Le Caire (Cairo for all you nancy English speakers) yesterday morning around 7am to begin my voyage to Bamako, Mali. The trip would take me to Casablanca with an 11 hour layover before my 11pm flight to Bamako. Before the night was over, I would have my visa yanked from Morocco after accumulating god knows how many dollars in fines via customs.

David :: Mar.25.2009 :: assholes, journal entry, liberty, travel :: No Comments »

Inside account of being spied upon by gov’t

Enjoy.

David :: Oct.09.2008 :: assholes, liberty :: No Comments »

Tasered to death

Why is it that when a civilian causes the life of another human being they are charged with murder, but when a cop does it they’re “in violation of guidelines” and placed on “paid administrative leave.” Can’t a guy stand on his fire escape in the nude swinging an 8 foot fluorescent bulb without getting tasered by the po-po?

Bullshit

David :: Sep.25.2008 :: assholes, liberty, power trippin' :: No Comments »