If You Need a Little Heartbreak

The next blog button takes you all kinds of places, mostly where people are apologizing for not having posted the last two weeks. But there is this little blog, "Baghdad Girl" from a 13 year Iraqi who loves adorable kittens. Note the little story about US soldiers busting her dad's car window.

I recommend checking out the links - mostly young Iraqis from teens to late 20's. It humanizes the war, and you can see where America is losing it's moral influence: the essentially American, democractic idea of the weblog hard up against an imposed occupation and the inevitable resentment, coming not from a hatred of freedom but a hatred of occupation. Kids surfing, moms looking for career advice, and one girl refusing to buy Pringles - American. Note also the American comments, often unable to shut up the brain-dead righteousness.

This all makes the picture of the little white cat in the duck hat cute on a transcendental level.