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I found this via one of my Google News Alerts.   I think its worth reading.  It was published in an Australian paper - The Age - the site requires a registratrion (free) to access some stuff so its reproduced here without pictures.

A leading expert on counter-terrorism imagines the future history of the war on terror - [...]

Brian’s grandmother passed away this morning at 8:30am.  We don’t know when the funeral is yet so not sure if we will be going up for it yet.  His mom called this morning to let us know she had died and to stress that if we weren’t able to get away from work to get up [...]

Brian and I were just talking….
When did national labor unions stop having TV commercials?  I remember them from when I was a kid -  legions of garment workers singing about looking for the Union Label when shopping.   I’m not sure how effective they were at the time in terms of making consumers think about how [...]

I hope in the future Americans are thought of as a warlike, vicious people, because I bet a lot of high schools would pick ‘Americans’ as their mascot. — Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey

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 SEN. BOXER: And, Senator Lugar, you are a very fair chairman, and I wanted to say to the new members also welcome — and you’ll enjoy this committee, because we have such a great chairman and such a terrific ranking member, and we really do a lot of things in a bipartisan way, unlike other [...]

I’ve discovered something weird.  Over the last year I have been limiting the amount of wheat I consume - mostly in an effort to limit (but not eliminate) carbs.  During that time, I found that when I consumed a larger than usual amount of wheat in the form of bread I would get the sniffles and [...]

This came in email from my mom today.  I’d never seen it before so I wanted to pass it on.
1. While sitting at your desk, lift your right foot off the floor  and make clockwise circles.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number “6″ in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change [...]

The new Hithchikers Guide movie site has soem (uninformative) trailers and wallpapers, buddy icons… etc at http://hitchhikers.movies.go.com/

I can’t read or speak Chinese but this silly chicken was pleasing unto me.
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