Kyrgyz Music.


Og Mandino should have written The Caveman Diet.


"One of the production line managers, Hassanjan, brimmed with a nationalist confidence bordering on religious faith. 'We haven't changed the cars' Korean specifications for our roads,' he said, nodding proudly at the highly automated machinery. 'We are of the opinion that we have to change the roads to the specifications of our new cars.' " --Sons of the Conquerors


The ache for celebrity recognition is not only our age's characteristic form of egotism, it is more fundamentally an inmost craving for a different order, one in which each person in themselves counts for something. Could we but recognize it and give it its proper name, it is the desire for social justice.



New ghazal.


Crumb's Kafka. (scroll down)


Hebrew Sudoku.


Fethullah Gülen.


Gore on "Good Morning America" this morning. Absurd and frightening. I mean, i'm glad to hear someone talking sense (for once) on network television, but her incomprehension, feigned or genuine, made it seem like they were on different planets. Which i guess is the point... But nations have gone sleepwalking before; we're not even unique in that regard.