[UPDATE 10-27-04; original post 10-12-04] by nadezhda
And here's a link to Salam Pax' occasional blogging for the Guardian. His new entries are about his recent seven-day trip to Washington, which followed the showing of his videos in Canda. Blogging about watching simultaneously the presidential debates and the Red Sox-Yankees, he has time for a few notes on political chatter:
And that is another thing that seemed to be incomprehensible to one of my new Washington friends: when we were talking about the popularity of the clerical militia chief Moqtada al-Sadr I was asked how anyone could be fooled by someone who so obviously used religion to boost his own popularity and went for the lowest common denominator for popular appeal? I was saved by another guest who asked if we were talking about Bush or Sadr here.