I am in here.
We have snow here in Cincinnati, a nice blanket of snow a couple of inches thick. It’s the “nice” sort of snow which does not cling very tightly to the roads, melts from them fairly quickly, but leaves the rest of the land looking like an old Currier & Ives etching. If it lasts, my … Continue reading dreaming of a White Hanukkah
Saddam Hussein Captured Alive Near Tikrit (AP)AP – American forces captured a bearded Saddam Hussein as he hid in a dirt hole under a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intensive manhunts in history. The arrest, eight months after the fall of Baghdad, was carried out without a shot fired … Continue reading ta daaa!
Explosion kills two in Tel AvivAn explosion in Tel Aviv kills three people and injures more, but police say it is probably not a terrorist attack. [BBC News] I woke up to see this on the news. Jaffa, which is right next to Tel Aviv, is where Mordechai and Chaya live, so I had to … Continue reading watching the news
“Carnival of the Vanities” is this week hosted by Signal + Noise. I get to be in the cicada section! I haven’t been watching the Carnival for too long, but this has to be one of the most well-designed issues of it. S+N also has a horridly interesting subtitle — keeps one thinking. Go see.
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