a little news update...

the youth (and older folks) riot in montreal after the killing of an 18 year old by police.

russia invades georgia. obama calls for international mediation. john mccain plagiarizes wikipedia instead.

while even more evidence comes in that bush has commited crimes, pelosi hasn't read the articles of impeachment!

oh yeah, and the olympics are happening in china. seriously.


to recover from all this information of a largely negative nature, you can read some beautiful poems by recently deceased palestinian poet, mahmoud darwish...