Coup? What Coup?

Allow me to start off with some follow-up comments to yesterdays post, specifically the DC Soda Tax issue. As a middle-class, well-educated son of an intact family, I've got (arguably) a better basis from which I can go out and be successful.I mentioned I don't like soda and that I acknowledge it to be a leading cause of obesity. Keeping healthy dietary habits is directly influenced by my upbringing (my mother raised me in such a way that I actually eat vegetables, even after moving out of the house! Yucky, I know). So of course, my background blinded me from making the more astute observations about the deeper implications of a law like the DC Soda Tax. The real victims of a law like a DC Soda Tax or the L.A. ban of Fast-Food in certain neighborhoods are the lower-class and undereducated, the ones who are least equipped to deal with the consequences. I understand the misguided reasons that they pass these foolish laws, but like I just said, they're misguided and foolish. Well, just wanted to add that little bit of analysis to what I considered an incomplete entry into my blog.

So I was reading my father's blog to make sure he was staying out of trouble, and I caught his post about the unheard of developments regarding the SoKo navy incident that recently took place in March in the waters around the Korean Peninsula. He was whining that the western media was ignoring the news that a South Korean investigation has discovered evidence of torpedo damage to their sunken ship, and they plan on officially condemning NoKo. I then reflected that I had heard this news weeks ago on various Chinese news outlets. I often read the news in Chinese, and this is the third big event that the western media has seriously lagged on reporting that I've noticed since february. The first two being Niger's military coup and Thailand's Red-Shirt movement. While I realize that the Red-Shirts are getting plenty of press now, I've been following these developing stories for literally months. The western media should step it's game up on matters of international importance. 

Muslim women empowering themselves... Badass.

This is the country we apologize to for Arizona? Punishing people for doing something that we literally have TV shows about in the states (up to 5 year sentence too). By the way, LA, how's that boycott working out for you? Fools.

Progressive! It's nothing the ACLU wouldn't advocate.

Dog Bites Man: Family values republican congressman admits to affair with staffer... surprise surprise. Pathetic.

I'm going to cut my post short here, woke up at 6:00AM today and didn't get home til 8:00PM so it's been long day.

Comments

[Alycia the Aborigine]

It's so true. Once you learn another language and get to actually use it to gain knowledge of world events, you realize that the world doesn't get the same news; even if it is extremely important news. I understand how countries report more on countries surrounding them because they are looking out for their own interests and wanting the public to be aware of what's going on close to home, but that piece of South Korean news is/was relevant to the whole world. Nice entry, Reed.

[G]

I feel so sorry for Saudi women. They are being suppressed in so many ways. That part of the world is pure evil....Maybe being a citizen of a nonexistent country isn't so bad after all. At least we have Zi-you!!!!! And we wouldn't be commiting a crime by meandering through a park with our boyfriends. How insane does that sound?!
However, if you look at it in another perspective, this might be a great opportunity for Chinese men. They should go marry Saudi women and put them out of their misery!!! What a win win solution to both countries' problems (Gracita, you're so smart lol).

[The Viking]

Thanks Alycia, I definitely agree that it's logical that China would focus more on its neighbors than we would, but for big world news I'm still disappointed in our media outlets.

Gracita - That's a brilliant idea, you should tell the Chinese. Zi-you is the most important, afterall, so you've got a lot when you think about it that way. Just to warn you, I know you didn't mean it this way but when we say, "put them out of their misery," that usually implies that we're going to kill them to stop their suffering... I don't think you support genocide though, so just wanted to clear that up for you haha.

[G]

Thank you!! Bai lao shi ;)