Homo Sum:
humani nil a me alienum puto

• I wish more North Americans had travelled enough to have a picture of how the world really is, outside of North America. Watching the miniature earth movie is a good way to start getting the idea, without spending years travelling.
• Think that the $8.3 trillion dollar national debt that Bush reports is a sign of absolute unmitigated fiscal disaster? What if the real value was actually $49 trillion, and it had more than doubled on Bush’s watch?
• Free legal downloads of Vincent Price movies and Little Shop of Horrors? Sign me up.
• You know that whole “Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse” line? You don’t want to do that. Especially not in Wisconsin.
• Do you know the stories from the Ramayana¹? If you do, you might be interested in Nina Paley’s Sita-positive animated interpretations of the stories, richly laden with blues vocals. If you don’t, you might like this as an introduction to the stories. Either way, I recommend checking out at least the first chapter, to get your fill of flying eyeball snakes. (And if you dig that, go check out her other stuff.)
• Maybe it’s time to think about the Declaration of Independence in a new light.

1. Or have you seen those Bollywood movies? Did you get the Hanuman gag in that post of mine a while back?(back)

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