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	February 27, 2003

MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD A friend of mine, David Jones, recently learned he was a first-place finalist in the annual International On-line Welsh Literary and Arts Festival (part of the Welsh Eisteddfod arts festival) in the Memories of Childhood category. Here is his submission. 5:10:38 PM  trackback []  comment []

EARTH OBSERVATORY Yahoo Science today publicized NASA's site that contains hundreds of high-resolution pictures of Earth from space, some of them so remarkably detailed you can pick out individual streets and houses. It's called Earth Observatory and it would be doing it a gross disservice to use a thumbnail shot in this post to exemplify its contents. Just go visit it, see the smoke trail from the Staten Island refinery fire (click on the 'large view' link), or the Etna eruption, or the Australian bush fires. These photos are breathtaking. I'm hanging up my Nikon. 2:47:44 PM  trackback []  comment []

A MAN CONSUMED WITH RAGE I watched Bush last evening speaking to his carefully chosen audience at the American Enterprise Institute and I thought: This man is utterly consumed with rage. He is almost quivering with bloodlust to avenge what Osama did to his beloved America. He decided ages ago he is going to kill 50,000 Iraqi citizens and bankrupt his country, just for revenge. All he's doing up there with his forced smirk is trying to justify doing so to himself and his closed inner circle. He doesn't care what the world or the U.N. thinks. In the loopy Walker Texas Ranger series, every week some lunatic terrorist would kidnap and torture and murder innocent Americans, and their families would try to settle the score. Walker would come in, tell them that killing thy enemy isn't the way, and kung fu the bad guys into submission against overwhelming odds. Then improbably, the defeated bad guys would stagger up, pick up some WMD and aim it at some guy's back, and Walker would whirl and shoot him dead. My God, Bush is living an episode of 'Walker' over and over in his head. And this psychopath has his hand on the trigger that could end the world. 10:56:09 AM  trackback []  comment []

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