The Oxymorons

Obama moved to DC today, and is staying at the historic Hay-Adams Hotel until inauguration because Bush is too much of a dick to let him stay in the residence usually set aside for the president-elect. In the meantime, Bush Senior is jabbering on about how his dear Jeb should be president next, and I just want to gag. As the "pop culture" specialist guy on Rachel Maddow said tonight, "what Bushes? why do you hate America so"?

In the meantime, I'm having major ambivalence towards Israel right now. On the one hand, they've sustained a rather unreported 300 missile fires out of Gaza by Hamas and into the southern end of the country. So I get that it needs to defend itself. It's teensy tiny and still a baby, in world power terms. But does it have to defend itself at the expense of civilians?? Or is that an oxymoron? Not to sound too hopelessly idealistic, but why is it the people who pay most for wars are the ones who didn't make them in the first place? As long as civilians are being killed, Israel's going to lose the PR war, which is so much of the battle. After thousands of years, you think they'll ever just lay down their guns, Israelites and Palestinians, and just start kissing instead, or at least laughing at themselves for wasting so much time on foolishness? Yes, I said it. I fear for what will happen there, to all those antiquities, so storied and so historied and so imbued with spiritual and religious meaning to so many, but still in the end JUST SO MANY THINGS. Isn't one life, just one, an entire world?