Late afternoon briefs (not the kind perpetually at war with boxers). In other words, what the heck am I doing besides obsessing about health reform.
Posted at Hell on Earth, but worth a mention here, is a Sudanese Woman’s willingness to take a flogging in order to change things.
Lubna Ahmed Hussein, a journalist working for the UN mission in Sudan, was charged with wearing ““indecent” clothing”. Having recently waived her rights to immunity, so the trial could continue, giving her a shot at changing things, the BBC quotes her as saying “she wanted carry on with the trial because she wanted to get the law changed.”
From Sudan Watch “The BBC’s James Copnall in Khartoum says Ms Hussein is determined to generate as much publicity as she can.”
It may seem minuscule to some, but good for her for standing up to something she wants to change.
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Looking up recipes for zucchini.The Absolute Best Zucchini Recipes
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I’m also heading slowly down the slide of disbelief over our varied state of literacy. A great big WTF, instigated by the following comment, from a site where I was looking up the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit.
“I presume that Alice in wonderland was made before this song and in thinking that I’d say Walt Disney probably did some drugs to come up with that idea in the first place and Jefferson airplane just made the song to go along with it. That’s a presumption.”
Am I just an ornery, old before my time, curmudgeon for finding this offensive?
Maybe it’s my proclivity for all things Alice, but not knowing Alice in Wonderland (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland), was written by Lewis Carroll, and is somewhat of a masterpiece, would be a notarized cardinal sin if I started a religion.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and the manuscript Alice’s Adventures Under Ground, are all available online.
If you haven’t read them, skedaddle until you do. Need I have to remind you, we’re all mad here.
