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Welcome!

There’s still some set-up work to be done, but the basics are in place, so tonight is launch night.

I open with a quote:

There was no ice cream in Saddam’s Iraq. This is not a metaphor about a black hole of happiness between the Tigris and the Euphrates. Dictatorships may make life miserable, but you can never truly legislate joy or enforce its absence.
—Moustafa Bayoumi, in How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America

Likewise you cannot legislate hope, even in Obama’s United States.

But you can live it.

Welcome.

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5 Responses to “Welcome!”

  1. Becky Robinson Says:
    August 7th, 2009 at 9:04 pm

    Congratulations on the launching of your new blog. It will be so amazing to see where it takes you and to be a part of the conversation here. Way to go, Meg!

  2. etiquette bitch Says:
    August 8th, 2009 at 8:57 am

    Cheers! Look forward to more.

  3. Star Says:
    August 8th, 2009 at 9:44 am

    Not sure where this blog is headed. I do one on coping with the econ disaster… http://hopeycopey.blogspot.com. Come visit. I do think The Millions may take the country back from
    The One. We shall see.

  4. megcox Says:
    August 8th, 2009 at 10:27 am

    I like the one some call The One. But there’s only one One, who is not That One.

  5. Becky Robinson Says:
    August 8th, 2009 at 7:20 pm

    Meg, I love your reply. I am excited to see how things unfold here.

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