I’m Back!

That’s right, the Daily Colonial’s PoliBlog (and by that I mean me, Danny K) is back and ready for action. And its a good thing too, because it’s not as if the world has stood still in my absence. Although there’s no use in trying to go over all the stuff that happened during the summer — and that works out just fine seeing how I didn’t really follow the news anyway — I would like to point out something that really struck me recently. Allow me to illustrate this through a bit of good ol’ fashion story-telling.

I was at the gym the other day flipping through a somewhat dated copy of the Economist (oh that’s right, my gym has the Economist) when I read something that really and truly shocked me: about 3,000 Iraqis, most of them civilian, are dying every month, primarily as a result of sectarian violence.

Holy hell! When did this happen?

Back when I was still following the news with some degree of regularity (circa right before finals last semester) it was a shocker to read that just 80 people had died in one month. Oh my, how things have changed.

Now it seems odd to be nostalgic for a time when anyone is dying on a daily basis, but here I am wishing it was three months ago (minus Donald Rumsfeld).

Sigh.