ready.gov
a return to duck, tuck, and cover

yes. that will help.

03.04.14

Great damn I'm a happy camper. Got the new Lucinda Williams and Elephant from our beloved White Stripes. Holly Golightly makes a great little diddy on the last track. Music can be so distracting.

Hitchens does have a latest entry worth repeating...on 'Give Peace a Chance.' If you're a book nut, check out his review from the April Atlantic.

I'm finishing up my work on an online survey on Library Staff Censorship. More on that later this week, I'm sure.

03.04.08

Another call to ban the bomblets (clusterbombs).
- "TAKEN all in all, a "bomblet" doesn't sound so bad, does it? More like a bomb-ette, or a toy bomb, or a miniature replica of same.

And I have just watched a vivid demonstration, made for TV, of the effect of a cluster bomb when tested on no target at all somewhere in the California desert.

Like all such videos, it has a seductively beautiful and symmetrical feel to it. Here comes the plane, swooping in low and fast and smooth. There go the bombs, leaving the belly just on time and at a perfect angle.

Then they break up and separate in mid-air and then, seconds later, a huge curtain of fire and shrapnel rises along a precise line. To those underneath, it must appear like the wrath of the risen Christ (if such a "crusading" image is permissible)."

Can Hitchens make it into Iraq unembedded?
- "AS I BRIEFED HITCHENS on the difficulties and dangers of getting into Iraq as an unembedded reporter, his eyes betrayed a wild impatience. "I have to get to Iraq," he told me. "You and everybody else," I replied, adding that the line started around the block. No, he said, I didn't understand. Vanity Fair had paid his freight, and he only had a short time. If his boots did not touch Iraqi soil, the mission would be a failure. Luckily, my best Kuwaiti contact called. The Kuwait Red Crescent Society was going into southern Iraq on a humanitarian drop. "Can you be downtown at the Sheraton by 1:00 p.m.?" she asked. It was 12:55, and we were in my car before she hung up."

Onychectomy banned in West Hollywood
- "Although cat declawing is banned in several European nations, animal advocates said they know of no such restrictions in the United States."

03.04.07

List of Shia Libraries destroyed by the Iraqi Goverment

03.04.01 Rights Watch

United Nations Development Fund for Women
-Do not forget the needs of Iraqi Women as the Face War

OTPOR!
-article on Otpor from MotherJones (2000)
- note from HRW from 2000

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