Cyber-stalking, or just another day on Facebook?

So, I want to add a girl as friend on FB that I met 3 weeks ago at a bar, maybe 4, in the hopes that someday she'll be single and then we can date. Is this cool? or creepy? Or does the fact that facebook itself is inherently creepy negate that? Isn't it weird that we meet people now, don't get their number, but then add them as a "friend" the next day on an online social networking site? There's no pre-internet version of this--you either got someone's digits or you didn't. Well, I guess you could stalk them in class, if you were still in school, but Facebook seems acceptable, whereas following them around a school would be entirely out of control. Facebook has made a certain degree of sketchiness acceptable. We're all stalkers now.

And that's just the beginning. In the real world, you might never see this person again, but on Facebook, you can keep track of THEIR WHOLE LIVES with just a click. You used to meet someone and have them pass along, but now, you can monitor them forever. Nothing is let go, everyone is retained in some sort of weird rolodex that not only has their name and number but personality type, recent photos and relationship status updates.

Back to this girl, though. What can I really expect: that in a month or two she does break up with her current boyfriend, remembers that I friended her and hit me up for drinks? Or should I keep track and strike once she's single again, never talking in the meantime because we really don't have that much to go on? And doesn't that last option signifry that I should just let it go, and get digits next time? Alas.

Af-Pak

It is totally unfeasible, and insulting to the countries involved, but it would seem that the logical solution to the mess in Afghanistan and Pakistan would be to dissemble the two states and redraw them as three--Afghanistan, Pashtunistan, and Pakistan. Most of the world's problems with the the two states as currently configured is what is ethnically Pashtun-dominated land. The northwest section of Pakistan and southeastern section of Afghanistan are tribally Pashtun, just happen to be separated due to, once again, the lack of foresight and understanding by the British. If the world were to unify the region, and leave it alone, perhaps this would settle all disputes. We could say "This is your shithole. Govern it as you please. Just don't harbor any terrorists or bother the two adjoining states."

One would think that such an arrangement could never come to pass, but maybe we should let Pakistan collapse (while seizing control of their nuclear weapons), and then reform the area as outlined above. If you look at the conflicts in the area as an aspiration for Pashtun independence and self-determination, such a solution doesn't seem like such a bad idea after all.

Radiohead

I like Radiohead. They perfectly capture a mood. But it's a morose, pensive mood. So I like them, but I can't imagine going to a Radiohead concert. I can't picture people just up and dancing to "Karma Police" or another mopey song about loss. No one's gonna head bang or shake their arms and legs to "Fog". It's the type of music you don't want to be around others when you're listening to it, but rather sitting on the floor with your arms around your knees while wondering where she went.