I was sitting in the sun yesterday and feeling kind of low from a bout of reading the news. It feels like we're in the midst of a collective global slide, and the People In Charge are doing all they can to grease the path on the way down. It's a deeply powerless feeling, and I don't like it.

With regard to the Israel/Palestine/Lebanon war (which is what Israeli leaders are calling it and they're the ones who get to decide) the situation seems impervious to outside influence. These people are going to kill one another until there's a collective decision to stop, which doesn't seem to have come just yet. It's a shit-sandwitch all around, and it's still escalating.

My real concern though is that this bloodshed is going to be used as a means to snowball some momentum to attack Iran, which I think will have really bad consequences for us. It has some of the same feeling as the run up to the Iraq invasion, though the axis of Bush is clearly not flying as high. At the same time, all they wanna do is drop some bombs, so the bar to clear in the public mind is probably lower.

I feel like someone should be organizing something to counter this momentum. "Someone should be organizing something" usually means that I need to start to do it. Fuckers.

I'm off to SF for a few days, a little business to transact. Also meeting with the Zacker and Duke Lauter and maybe a pre-bar Girth. Will bring my camera.