Saturday, 15 March, 2003

Move along folks Another week-end another anti-war protest. No real news here I figure. Unlikey to change anybodys mind at this point. I don't know how Google's news chewer decides its main and subsiderary links before it puts up its "and 231 related" link, but what struck me about this was the lack of the Washington Posts name on this story entity. Guess I'm not the only one that has decided there's nothing to see here. The W. Post is apparently replacing is old moto an Independent Newspaper with a new one "No sir, we don't don't bite the hand that feeds us pb ._._. Anti-war slogans ring again in Washington. United Press International - (UPI) -- Washington rang again with anti-war slogans Saturday as protesters from across the nation poured into the nation's capital. AP News in Brief San Francisco Chronicle Bush plans summit on gaining UN backing for Iraq war Kansas City Star Reuters - BBC - Deutsche Welle - Independent - and 231 related » [Google News] 11:49:38 PM    comment []; Fade to white Metafilter had a thread up mid-week on Lafcadio Hearn, who you say? well, this is an opportunity to find out. The name rung a small bell with me and when I had a moment I went digging through the small notebook I carry around and write stuff down in... (too be honest at the moment I have about three little notebooks meeting that description, but one is the real one the others just pale imitations) digging back about two years I find this: "Henry Adams went to Japan, and so did Lafcadio Hearn." If the purpose of my small red notebook is to produce cyrptic contextless fragements of thought, I pronounce it a triumphant success. I'll go out on a limb here and suggest the two possibly knew one another and let someone prove me wrong. Henry Adams was the Harvard prof. grandson of presidents and author of The Education of Henry Adams. 10:59:41 PM    comment []; SARS This is the second story the NYT has run on this in three days. Generally my feeling is any news story combining the phrases "mystery illness", and "world health threat" is not good. The name they've given it - Severe Acute respitory syndrome. When the W.H.O. starts piling on adjectives its time to stock up on vitamin c. Of course maybe it was just a bad day to start reading Pale Horse Pale Rider. Hey if you look at the picture in the previous post you can see the apartment building where she used to live, Katherine Anne Porter, it's that bump on that apparently nameless low ridge on the horizon, mostly a small state park. pb ._._. Rare Health Alert Is Issued by W.H.O. for Mystery Illness. The alert declared a mysterious respiratory illness "a worldwide health threat" and urged all countries to help control it. By Lawrence K. Altman and Keith Bradsher. [New York Times: NYT HomePage] 9:23:24 PM    comment [];

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