Troubled in Uppsala

Haven't posted for some time, because I'm in Sweden and have limited Internet access. Ira's home computer is a virtual antique running Windows '97 & she's got a per-minute dial-up connection that is apallingly slow, so I've stayed offline, which hasn't been a bad thing. I've spent the past hour in her office at Uppsala University reading articles about the abuses at Abu Ghraib, which are problably not the abberations that the Bush Administration and the military have portrayed them to be. It's all very disturbing. I suspect the reputation of the United States has suffered irreparable damage, in large part because of the extreme arrogance of Bush and Co. Recently watched Lars von Trier's Dogville, which can be read as a disturbing allegory about American arrogance and the will to sadism behind the ethos of compassionate conservatism. Ira needs to use her computer, so I'm signing off.