Protest the Olympics

Some afternoon, you show me how you swim and dive off the diving board, and I’ll do the opposite.

Ken Mikolowski Postcard Flag

One minor quarrel I have with this video is the Iraqi death count. ORB, which has done polling research for the BBC and the British Conservative Party, put Iraqi deaths since the US invasion at between 733,000 and 1,446,063. 20.2% of respondents to the poll said that at least one household member has died as a result of the US invasion. The British medical journal Lancet published a study in October 2006 putting the number at 655,000, and a co-author of that study said “time alone counts for most of the difference (with the ORB survey).”

Orphans: 5 million, 35% of all children in Iraq.
Refugees: 3.9 million, 16% of the population.

And of course there’s another 71 million in Iran for McCain to “bomb” and other presidential aspirants to “obliterate.”

I have discovered a tunnel from leaf blowers to tugboats, walls covered with honey.

Paco de Lucia reports that flamenco is completely devoid of the mention of death. So limiting for the Westerner of letters. Eisenhower highways, indoor plumbing, death and taxes, taxes for death.

A firefly on my nose between my eyes just now. Why didn't I want him there? Familiar beacons.

I am recycling the mosquitos, and then assuming that they are rare and expensive.