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Monday, May 28, 2007
Getting Georgia to quit smoking 
| | Firedoglake: I've been praying for rain every day. I would appreciate if you guys would consider doing the same. My state is burning. |
Memorials
| | One such soldier was my uncle, Sidney Leibowitz. Sidney, who was old enough to avoid military conscription had he wanted to, volunteered to join the army nevertheless. He served as a medical corpsman from the Normandy invasion to the Battle of the Bulge and died during the intense fighting around the Belgian town of Bastogne, either killed in combat or murdered by Germans along with other American prisoners captured in the battle that they identified as Jews. I am proud to have been named after him. |
| | That's a closing footnote to a much longer piece that recalls Joe Hill, Abel Meeropool and all-but-forgotten junctures of people and history. |
| | I got there from Steve's deep and interesting history behind the graves of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II and the mystic Sheikh Bedreddin. Though they died five centuries apart, they were both reformers and for that reason are planted near each other in an Istanbul cemetary. |
| | Both essays make good reading on a day when we remember those who fought and died — not only for our country, but for causes at that endure. |
Because knowing beats the alternatives
Obsessioneering
| | Bell's archive now also contains a hundred and twenty-two thousand e-mails; fifty-eight thousand photographs; thousands of recordings of phone calls he has made; every Web page he has visited and instant-messaging exchange he has conducted since 2003; all the activity of his desktop (which windows, for example, he has opened); eight hundred pages of health records, including information on the life of the battery in his pacemaker; and a sprawling category he describes as "ephemera," which contains such things as books he has written and books from his library; the labels of bottles of wine he has enjoyed; and the record of a bicycle trip through Burgundy, where he tried to eat in as many starred restaurants as he could (he averaged 2.2 stars per meal—"I do a lot of measuring," he says). |
Unscrewing yesterday
| | Sorry, the permalinks were all screwed up on yesterday's blog posts, until Euan IM'd me with an alert just this minute (breakfast in England, bedtime on the West Coast). They should all be working now. |
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