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Friday, April 11, 2003

Approximately

Approximately 37,000 non-Americans currently serve in the United States armed forces.

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“Saddam Did Not Fall Alone” by Abd Al-Rahman Al-Rashid from London’s

;Shocked were the people of Cairo, where fundamentalists, nationalists, leftists, and the misguided led marches in which they announced their willingness to volunteer. They led marches in which they volunteered to defend Saddam's Iraq. But yesterday morning, the [Arab] television stations, including Al-Jazeera, which throughout the war had participated in a campaign to defend Saddam and his regime, did not manage to conceal the scenes of the joy of the masses in the capital—without being able to explain it. Therefore, yesterday's scenes of the Baghdadis demonstrating and tearing down and urinating on the portraits of their dictator, pulled down the biggest lie in contemporary Arab history. (Source Link)

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Thursday, April 10, 2003

“Language of Love” by Matthew Everett from the St. Louis

;It seems silly if you're not a linguist. We were sending letters back and forth, and the climax of it was that he sent me a package with a plastic bag in it, and inside the plastic bag was a glass vial, sealed, with a katydid inside. He included a long letter in red, blue and black ink that went into minute detail about why he thought kaskaskia meant 'cicada.' But I never fully understood what the bug in the jar had to do with what he was attempting to convince me of. He'd obviously gone out and caught it himself. I don't know where else he'd get a dead katydid. I told some members of the Miami tribe about it, and they think he's funny. They view him as a crazy white guy. (Source Link)

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Wednesday, April 09, 2003

“Case ends against Plastic People: Prosecutors decline to pursue communist-era accusations against u

;They even put a picture of me on television in the '70s saying that I was a drug addict and that I hadn't had a job for a long time. But in reality, I have never swallowed any drug apart from an aspirin, and I had a job for 15 years at the National Graphic Organization. (Source Link)

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I laughed until I cried.

I laughed until I cried. (Source Link)

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