Okay, Mr. Jones, a portrait of the artist as a young brat.

Oh.  A young prat?

What the hell is a prat?  Must be lost in translation, Queen's English to American and all that.

[sigh] 

That might explain the results you've received.

8:24:43 PM    comment []

Lockerbie: CIA Witness Gagged by U.S. Government

If the content of this old news blurb is accurate, what the f*ck was the Libyan thing really all about?

Don't get me wrong, Moammar Ghaddafi isn't exactly my favorite character.  He's yet another one of those strong-armed wacky dictator types that seem to thrive in the Middle East at the expense of the populace. 

Was Lockerbie a method for shutting him down without actually having to start a war over him?

Ugh.

(ED:  Nuts, very sorry, I cut this part off.  I meant to include this --)

It makes today's announcement by Libya even more odd; what else is going on here?  Is it that the Libyan economy doing so poorly or that Ghaddafi is really losing/losening his grip on control after all these years?  Not that I mind this -- but it's dissonant cognitively with everything that's happened over the last couple of decades.

12:34:08 AM    comment []

I'd have a difficult time passing up this guy.

The photography is pure artistry, the writing engaging.

And he can actually take care of himself.

(P.S.  Dr. Omed: check out the sunset at that link.  Good stuff.)

12:28:57 AM    comment []