Flogging Dead Horses

1. It's very, very hot today.

2. Lance Bass is still gay.

100 years ago, a heatwave would have meant dead horses in the street. This change may be the best we've done in terms of human progress.

Choose

I have finally articulated for myself what bothers me about my relationship with world news. As presented in the media, situations like that in Israel and Lebanon leave me having to choose between the agendas of groups of wealthy, self-interested men on each side.

I rather see most conflicts as a disconnect between these wealthy, self-interested men taken as a group and the masses they control or abandon for their own gain.

Put concretely: I don't want to choose between sides who are dropping bombs; I'd rather side with the bombed.

Thus the news is less than useful for the most part.