The Electricians: Day 12

[poliphilo]

Khalid and his crew have been here, but it's the window boys who took centre stage. At the end of the day we have power everywhere- except in the kitchen- and four new windows have been fitted, plus the kitchen doors.  It's been a bright, sunny day- and perishingly cold.

A right-wing LJ friend who assured me that our political differences would never come between us has unfriended me- presumably over my Afghanistan poems. I'm a little disappointed.

 I'm reading Ophelia Field's history of The Kit Kat Club.

Tomorrow is Eid. The window boys will be coming in, but Khalid is having the day off; he's earned it.

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The Electricians

[ideealisme.livejournal.com]

"Someday this will all end, you know." / Schindler.

I'm off the list too. Don't recall mentioning Afghanistan tho. Not sure how I feel about that war, whether it's practicable and winnable. I do loathe the Taliban. My LJ friend kraygern is a counter-intelligence officer with the US Army who is going to be / is involved with work in Afghanistan. His perception is interesting and a good read.

[tinceiri.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear about the end of your friendship.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I used to believe that in politics there could be such a thing as principled disagreement. While that may still be true, I have come to learn, especially in these past few years, that it is pointless to seek principled discussion, or even principled people, in a morally degenerate nation.