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The barefoot boy with shoes on

Here’s a variation on a little poem my grandfather would recite when I was a boy. It always made me crack up.
Twas midnight on the oceanNot a street car was in sightThe sun was shining brightlyFor it rained all day that nightTwas a summer day in winterAnd the snow was raining fastAs a barefoot [...]

In Uncategorized on 9 March 2004 with 2 comments

Pigs in Kandahar

This Alex Gregory cartoon from the March 8th issue of The New Yorker struck a hilarious chord. To be a pig in Kandahar. Would it really be so grand? Turns out that pigs are not spared the dinnertable because of taste but because they are deemed unclean by both the Koran and [...]

In Uncategorized on 8 March 2004 with no comments