In world news, it's the day after the withdrawal of U.S. forces from urban areas of Iraq. There has been violence associated with this, especially in the city of Kirkuk. The truth of the matter is that it's time to let Iraq begin to become a sovereign nation. We can't be the world's moral police. Now, President Obama must deal with Afghanistan and Pakistan. Poor guy. Oh, well, that's what happens when our democratically elected public servants only look out for their own best interests.
In Ashleyverse news, I've been chatting online with this mystery man from Maysville, Kentucky, over the past few days. Actually, he's not all that mysterious to me anymore. His name is Josh, and he's a 34-year-old Navy brat and a criminal justice major at the University of Louisville. He read my review of the obscure-but-wonderful film Inside Moves (1980) after finding a link to this blog that I posted on the movie's message board at IMDb.com. Hmm... this could be interesting. I'll stick around and see which direction it goes. (FYI, I looked up Maysville on wikipedia and discovered that the town, located in the Northeastern corner of the Bluegrass State, near Lexington and the West Virginia border, was the site of a slave auction witnessed by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1833. Years later, this experience would serve as a backdrop for Stowe's incendiary, best-selling expose of the slave trade-- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).)
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