Keeping busy

Just in case anyone took a break from Rooted Cosmopolitans, there are four posts up from today and yesterday. We've got book reviews of Los Gusanos, by author and film director John Sayles, and Dreaming in Cuban, by Cristina Garcia, who for some reason I've been completely misidentifying as a relation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, even though she's Cuban-American and he's rather famously Colombian. UPDATE:Forgot to mention, I'll have reviews out soon of Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, World's Fair, by E.L. Doctorow, and Running With Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs. I like two out of the three. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to which two?

On the political side, we've got my surprising support for the media in light of the Virginia Tech tragedy, though I'll note that NBC's branding of Cho's materials was more than a bit tasteless.

Finally, I seem to have started a trend by complaining about the Great Wall of Baghdad. Just yesterday, it seems, the Iraqi government let us know that they don't want it either. Needless to say, this is a colossal FUBAR on the part of everyone involved. It's getting harder and harder to say with a straight face that they are in charge when we keep disagreeing with their government about whose troops should be doing what, and we're already sounding out overthrowing the government now in power. Even if Harry Reid actually hedged his statements, I see no need. The War is lost.