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That was my best nail.

It’s in a bandage. Looking like it might be a bit grizzly, in there. Still numb. I picked up my drugs, got an egg bagel at Starbucks, Peter dropped me off at home, checked the news and blogs, and took a nap. Now for some more tea, [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Tomorrow begins three days of vicodin.

Categories: Wildcard

Telegraph - Burma ‘orders Christians to be wiped out’

The military regime in Burma is intent on wiping out Christianity in the country, according to claims in a secret document believed to have been leaked from a government ministry. Entitled “Programme to destroy the Christian religion in Burma”, the incendiary memo contains point by [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Wheat & Weeds - There’s Nothing We Can Do About Defeatism

…but the thing that sticks in my craw so badly is the point Gen. Keane makes: On the “Charlie Rose Show” this month, former Army vice chief of staff Gen. Jack Keane, who supports the counterinsurgency [...]

Categories: War and Peace

BBC - Spain resizes clothes for women

Spain is to overhaul its clothing sizes for women as part of a government drive to ease pressure on young girls over their body size.

So the corset. Originally wood, evolved into whalebone. Whalebone, by the way, cracks. So not only do the things make [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Ghost brides are murdered to give dead bachelors a wife in the afterlife

A ring of gangsters who traded in the bodies of women they murdered, selling them as brides to keep dead bachelors happy in the afterlife, has been arrested in China. The arrests have exposed a trade that [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Comcast (for once) rules! 2.44 and I’ve been online for like ten minutes already (the window was 2 - 6)! Nicest cable guy ever. I love Russians.

So, once I have a chair again, all should be back to normal. If, that is, I ignore the mountains of unpacking and organizing I [...]

Categories: Wildcard

Wheat & Weeds - Behind You All The Way, Good Buddy

Senate Armed Services Committee so resolved against the surge, it swiftly approves the man to lead it.

I noticed that too, yesterday, but thought, “Well, maybe they’re different committees?” I guess they aren’t?

What could be more wicked than announcing to your [...]

Categories: War and Peace

AFP - Russian uranium smuggler caught in Georgian-US sting

Georgian authorities have imprisoned a Russian citizen for attempting to sell 100 grams (3.5 ounces) of weapons-grade uranium after a joint operation with the FBI, officials announced. Georgia’s security services arrested Oleg Khiltsagov as he tried to sell “100 grams of 90-percent [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I missed this one:

The Atlantic Monthly (Steyn Online) - SHE SAID WHAT SHE THOUGHT Oriana Fallaci, 1929-2006

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - Baghdad or Bust Bush’s political capacity at home as well as abroad now depends on Iraq

For while only the second half of his speech dealt directly with Iraq, the blunt truth is that events in Baghdad will determine Mr Bush’s political standing in Washington.

Yeah well he’s only got two years left [...]

Categories: Politics

Is all their illegal whaling some sort of blackmail for the Sea Gods? “Send them up or we’ll kill another one!” “…Onegai.“

Daily Mail - Rare primitive shark captured on film

A species of shark rarely seen alive because its natural habitat is 600 metres (2,000 ft) or more under the sea was captured [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

You’d think they’d want to convey the opposite impression, that they’re very important, necessary, and relevant. Maybe even worth voting for president someday. Since that’s what they all want. But I guess no one noticed what happened to Kerry the other year.

Opinion Journal - Senators-in-Chief Congress has no Constitutional power to micromanage a [...]

Categories: Politics

The internet’s supposed to be turned on here on Thursday. In the meantime we’re “borrowing” the internet from someone nice enough not to change the defaults on their wireless router, which isn’t exactly lightening fast at the best of times. In case everything goes pear shaped, here’s at least one post a day. [...]

Categories: Wildcard

I didn’t watch a lot of the speech last night. I was making dinner before we had to run down to the old apartment to unload our couch on a nice Craigslister. I had the radio on, but then I decided I wanted to turn the TV on to see what Nancy Pelosi [...]

Categories: Politics