Brain dead

I'm quite the underachieving blogger, it would seem. I've got precious little to say.

But in case you were curious about what seemed hip and ironic in Tbilisi in 1994, have a look at these costumes of fully-burkad (or someone correct me on the precise name of those robes, if you care to) women for a production entitled Sahara.

I took a minute to look into a claim by a colleague that the Nation of Islam was 1.7 million strong and that they don't vote as a matter of policy. Judging by the quality of the Nation's website, it's hard to imagine how it could organize 1.7 thousand people to do anything. It also took me back to 1994.

Meanwhile, things are heating up in Belarus, a county seemingly stuck in 1979, whose dictator Lukashenko couldn't get it invited to join the "Axis of evil" only because it's so pathetic that its most threatening WMD is lingering fall-out from Chernobyl, of which it has plenty. Gallup claims that Lukashenko get 48% of the vote in the recent unconstitutional referendum to scrap presidential term limits, which would fall short of the threshhold needed. But lenta.ru says he got 73%, and the official claim is 77%. Who's right? Who knows? But there were protesters across the street today from Lukashenko's house and they've promised to come back tomorrow. This is a rarity in Belarus. Lets cheer them on and hope that Belarus can be drawn as far forward in time as the fall of '89.