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  • - Innumeracy - I read an article in the Times yesterday that stated that the Baghdad morgue recorded just over 1,500 violent deaths of Iraqi civilians deaths last month. This, apparently, is good news because it's a …

  • - Perspective - (The comparison of spending on cosmetics and liquor vs. clean water and education are what killed me the most.) Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. T…

  • - Warren Christopher is a G - This essay (which you can listen to, if you'd rather not read, at the link inside) expresses a sentiment about driving, and life, that has always been on the tip of my tongue, but which I h…

  • - Sharing My Delayed Response - Two weeks ago, little brother Freddy Sanchez wrote: What's your opinion on the situation in Israel/Lebanon? My opinion is largely based on news articles like this. After first explaini…

  • "My daughters like to be accessorized. Isabella doesn't like to leave the house without a purse.'' - Jean Strahan, who became the ex-wife of Giants defensive end Michael Strahan last week at a family court in Newark, N.J…

  • - I'll Add This to the Long List of Things I'll Never Understand - I don't understand why the Christian Right isn't going apeshit over the Nick Lachey and Jessica Simpson divorce and ensuing shenanigans (yes, I rea…

  • "The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen t…

  • - Two - On a semi-unrelated note, I've been so frazzled recently that I haven't been able to mull over most of the many things that have recently been thrown at me. While I'd love to flesh any of these ideas out for…

  • - Wag the Dog - Oh my God. Frank Luntz has finally flipped his lid. (For anyone that's unfamiliar with Luntz, he's the Republican's #1 superstar pollster. He's like Karl Rove, but even more scary because he's so effe…

  • EDIT: I think there may be some confusion. While my life does seem to be full of doom, gloom, and dying family members as of late, I'm not related to Fred Korematsu. He was a Japanese-American that unsuccessfully brou…