Really busy? You can say that again XD School's back and it's just ughh drained of ideas for threads - brains thinking about protein instead
I dunno about martial arts and pop culture - I don't know much about Chinese pop culture, but I'm not really one for any kind of pop culture anyways XD Don't know what's going on with Hollywood celebs either.
I'm starting get the feeling that communism is kind of like feminism: both utopian, both can't figure out a roadmap getting from today to utopia - as if that is possible, and in both the loudest people attract hate from the rest of the population. There's a lot I don't know about Marxism though, and I guess I'll catch up on the reading sooner or later. Why are you interested in it? It isn't often that you find someone else who's interested, most people are either indifferent or hostile. It's a shame that people avoid it though - whether you agree or disagree with the content, it's still fascinating stuff.
I'm wondering how you connect with your parents' background. People assimilate differently: I'm pretty engaged with my roots, if you'd take my word for it, but a friend of mine has "devalued her culture and traditional knowledge" (in her own words, personally I read it as whitewashed *smug smile*). People can be engaged or disengaged, sympathetic or critical, so I'm interested where you fall on those two scales. Especially with roots in Palestine, are you big on that?
D&D has long been my favourite place as well. I don't always know what the community wants though :P I thought the Single Issue Voter thread would kick off, but maybe it's too technical, I'm not sure. There has to be a balance between the easy-to-post topics and the intellectually meaty ones that really force you to pick it apart. Everything's a compromise :P