Andre Gide

>“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

Link to a PDF of a nice article written about Whole Wheat Radio.

Congratulations Esther and Jim!

Alexander Yuvchenko was on duty at Chernobyl’s reactor number 4 the night it exploded on 26 April 1986. He is one of the few working there that night to have survived. He suffered serious burns and went through many operations to save his life, and he is still ill from the radiation. He recently broke his silence for a documentary to be shown on the Discovery Channel.

>“I began to feel sick. I knew one of the first symptoms of radiation illness was vomiting, but I was thinking, have I eaten something? I was trying to keep the worst thoughts at bay. Half an hour after the explosion I had met a man with a dosimeter, he was fully covered so I don’t know who it was, and I asked him what the reading was. He showed me the counter, which was off the scale. That was a frightening moment. It was impossible to say how much radiation we were taking in, but I knew it was a large dose. I was taken to the local hospital at about 5 am because I was too weak to walk. I was taken to Moscow that evening.”

A tale of terror and heroism

Herman Wouk

>“Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.”

Christopher Allbritton writes from Najaf Iraq to give us a chilling view that the news cameras and talking heads can’t come close to matching.

His excellent blog “Back To Iraq” is always worth reading. An excerpt where he describes a visit from the local police:

>“These are Najaf’s finest. They’re like the old regime, only less disciplined. They’re terrifying and they’re the most dangerous element in this conflict. The Americans and the Mahdi Army have pretty set positions and you know they’re not targeting journalists. But the police here have been engaging in a systematic intimidation of us for three weeks now. The governor of Najaf has reportedly threatened to jail journalists who don’t write down exactly what he says when he says it in interviews.”

Extremely powerful eye-witness accounts.

If we have an asshat of the day, why not have a hero?

Today’s hero is Perdita Felicien. She tried her best yesterday in the 100 yard hurdles at the Olympics but misfortune cost her a chance at the gold medal that the media had already awarded her. We put too much on her young shoulders and she was unable to deliver.

Win or lose Perdita, you’re still a hero. Give ‘em hell in 2008!

Lisa Whelchel, come on down! You’re asshat of the day. Not for playing Blair on that terrible sitcom, “The Facts Of Life”. No, anyone can make a youthful mistake.

You’re winning for advocating “hot saucing” as a method of discipline for young children. Yep, a couple of drops of “Kick Your Ass” hotsauce will keep the little bastards in line.

Washing your mouth out with soap was good enough for me, I think the idea of inflicting searing pain oversteps the boundaries just a tad.

Don’t know if this is real or not, but it appears to be Quentin Tarantino’s Blog.