*"universality" vs "cosmopolitanism"

* CAK on green card -- basically impossible, tied to her job, no real "queue"

* immigration -- don't ask, don't tell?

* U.S. nationalism -- an oxymoron?  (via EM)

*which ties to "making the world safe for democracy" vs "spreading democracy" (again, EM on Wilson)

Apologies for the rather public Note to Self.  It's nothing more because I've injured my pinky, which makes typing surprisingly difficult and because I'm in the land of slow internet (aka my parents' house).  But I wanted to write my thoughts down so I wouldn't have to remember them. :)

*Oh, regional looks? -- and "froufrou hair" 

*AND definition of "progressive" or "progressivism" -- suggestion by nascardaughter, I think