Blogs once again blocked in Ethiopia

Only a few short weeks since Blogspot was reinstated by the state-controlled Ethiopia Telecommunications Corporation, which controls all internet in the country, those blogs and a lot more are inaccessible from inside ET once again. The blackout, designed to silence any speech that disagrees with the current government, is much more sweeping. Even inoccuous blogs like Meskelsquare.com have been blocked. Included in the list of dangerous political extremists is my pal Jenny's and her blog, lately mostly about compost.

"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin)

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[Stew]

I also talk about NC barbeque at LENGTH. Here. Let me paste the WHOLE ENTRY in your comments. I'm SO subversive...now you can see why!
(Sorry marc....i don't know any other way around. :-( )

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I'm FANCY.

I'm alone in a hotel room right now. There's wireless, cable, a free full breakfast (waffles!), and even a pool. It's amazing what registers as luxury to me.

Maybe I feel so pampered because it's FREE. I have a king sized bed (did I mention cable??), six pillows and a dorm-sized fridge. I don't have to even think about when to get up, because someone is going to call me at 6:30 a.m. Then I'll go to a training for work. I'm going to teach people how to quit smoking, apparently (BUAH HA HA HA HA--almost 8 months, though, people!)

I'm full to the rim*. The training tomorrow is in the BBQ capital of the world, and the hotel is across the street from one of the elder statesmen of 'Q. It happens to be open on Sundays, unlike its more well-known and revered brother, Honey Monk's, AKA Lexington #1, AKA Lexington Barbecue.

NCBBQ is a serious topic, and some people just don't get it. Eastern vs. Western, chopped vs sliced...so many things to consider. And then there's the slaw: red or white (warning: bad midi version of Dixie--and scroll down to the explanation of slaws. I've never had yellow slaw)

Here's a primer. I'm falling asleep I'm so full. I'm super glad I knew to get the outside brown**. My order was a BBQ plate: coarse chopped, outside brown, red slaw, fries and hushpuppies. The hushpuppies were just 'eh'.

Hm, though. Maybe I should have gotten a fried pie, too.The sugar might have woken me up. Except even the sweet tea wasn't even enough for that. Ah...sweet, sweet barbecue.

I hope they cater the training tomorrow with BBQ. And I'm going to get some to go, too.

*Jerry: name that 70s commercial tagline!
**My friend Maria helped me move the rest of the dirt today. When I told her about my imminent trip, she clued me in to the lingo. "Outside brown" is the smokiest part of the pig... crispy, browned skin clinging to chunks of meat.

[Stew]

Hm. lost the HTML formatting. Rest assured there were a lot of links about NC BBQ.

[MELES]

you said Meskelsquare blocked in Ethiopia buty Meskelsquare also block any one who opp. their view... try to post any thing in there site first they have to approve it... you see they site in America and they block as what they going to lose they have no power they have nothing to lose by they don't respect free speech when they have nothing to lose then how I am going to trust them when they have every thing to lose if they have power and if they sit in Addis ababa palace instead of driving taxi or working at parking lot..