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First Hand Account: Beirut Bombing

My friend M. lives and teaches in Beirut, Lebanon. I'm passing on his email message, which is a first-hand account of his experience with the recent bombing in Beirut.

Tsunami Relief

On French Fries and Being American

I moved to Asia to get out of my comfort zone. I wanted to reinvent my life in the opposite hemisphere- so far from home that if I flew any further, I’d be heading back.

Shrimp

"Less than two weeks after a 40-foot wave flattened massive swaths of Southeast Asia, ......

Bush's Inauguration Speech In One Sentence

"Bush to the World:

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves"

-Ben Schwartz as posted by Brian Doherty

(Also by Brian Doherty: This Is Burning Man, a chronicle and history of "Burning Man")

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I wasn't there.

I didn't watch it on TV.

But, you can click to read the full text below

Tracking the Masses

"Sandra Martinez, 10, uses her ID card to indicate that she is getting off her school bus in Spring, Tex." Does anyone else get the heeby-jeebies when they read these two articles from this week’s N.Y. Times entitled Tiny Antennas to Keep Tabs on U.S. Drugs (15 Nov.) and In Texas, 28,000 Students Test an Electronic Eye (17 Nov.)? (If you aren't a member of the N.Y .Times, click on the "Continue reading" link below for the full text of the articles.) Must students be required to wear tracking devices in order for them to be safe? My instincts tell me: buy stocks in the companies who manufacture these devices. This trend of tracking pets, products, cattle, children, and adults is growing.

God **** America

Add an “F” to the first asterisk and a “K” to the last, and thus you have the angry words of a Brit as she raises her beer mug high, a scowl on her face.