Another spam cleanout, at long last!

Go me!  I cleaned out more spam!  I'm paying TypePad 9USD a month simply to prevent link-rot and keep the option of coming back here open for some future time. I can be found at various other internet haunts, on some of which I even have posting privileges, but this will still be my name-link and home base.  I suppose one day I should clean the link-rot in the blogroll, and actually put in the blogs I do read... 

I still get hits primarily from my "(Not) Without My Daughter" post series, which remains controversial to this very day.  I suppose people are still teaching the book at universities, etc.  I hardly ever encounter it in popular culture anymore, and even when I wrote those posts it had, I think, already gotten stale.  Conflict with Iran, however, isn't stale, more's the pity.  But the update, for those who weren't paying attention, is that Moody Mahmoody died not long ago without ever seeing his daughter, and it looks like his daughter never wanted to see him, as far as we can tell. We have no idea whether she has even seen his version of the story in "Without His Daughter" or what she might think about it.  I leave it to the reader to decide what it all means.  Let me just say: until there is a widespread acknowledgement of the West's involvement and ulterior motives in pre-Revolutionary Iran, it will remain very easy to cast doubt on things like "Not Without My Daughter" and the motives of its author, fair or not. 

Other than that, life is mostly good.  This blog header is kind of out of date, in a sense, because I no longer live in the USA or Canada, though that may be temporary.  I have come to feel that it is necessary to live in a country to understand its politics, whereas before living in the USA I might have said otherwise.   So we'll see how long it takes me to lose touch with the "tempo" of the USA...

Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled bloggy neglect!

Comments

[ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©]

I appreciate the free from $ spendage of Blooger, although as an occasional poster at Thers I've come to see that you can do more things in typepad (and strikethrough works in the comments!).
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[Mandos]

Yes. At the time I started this Blooger was even less reliable and it had even few features. That's why I went to TypePad. But if the option had really been open at the time, I'd have gone to WordPress. I think it wasn't a big deal back then.