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Have you ever wondered? Who Was General Tso And Why Are We Eating His Chicken?

Today I am coining a new word.

Wonderfun. adj, extraordinarily good fun.

It is not in dictionary.com, and I searched google for wonderfun as well. The google search returned 275 results, but I’m convinced that all those people were just misspelling wonderful.

That is, in fact how I came across the word, in case the historians are someday wondering. In fact, google itself wonders, Did you mean: wonderful (which returns approximately 12,100,000 results)

And maybe at first I meant wonderful, but now I’ve realized that I really meant wonderfun. So there you have it. I hope everyone has a wonderfun day!

I love these things! Thanks John!

Your Brain Usage Profile

Auditory : 47%
Visual : 52%
Left : 27%
Right : 72%

A.J., you are moderately right-hemisphere dominant and have even preferences between auditory and visual processing, traits that might make people perceive you as “slightly off balance.”

Go take the Mind Media Brain Persuasion Test, it was fun!

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I came home for lunch today, and while I was spooning up a big heap of peanut butter on to my toast, I noticed this wee little thing. I almost inadvertently killed it when yeti tried to squeeze through the door to attack it. All was well though, and I snapped this picture.

It’s really really tough to get a decent picture of a lunar eclipse on a
digital camera with no tripod.

New site to read: Warblogging

I have the anger too. I wish I knew what to do about it.

I’m angry that I know, personally, people who have been touched by the massive domestic “security” apparatus constructed after September 11. They say that in South America everyone knows someone who’s been “disappeared”. I feel like things are getting that way here, too, except that not quite that many people are being “disappeared” yet ó they’re just being harassed. I’m absolutely livid at the thought that a student at the State University of New York was interrogated by the Secret Service after he wrote an editorial in a school newspaper asking Jesus to smite President Bush. I’m furious, completely furious that that friend of mine was asked if he had a copy of Mein Kampf and the Unabomber’s Manifesto as the Secret Service turned his apartment upside down. Do you realize that the Secret Service told him that his editorial was not “protected speech”?

Articulated far better than I could put it. Read it.

None of this britta-filtered crap! Today we bring you some independent, first hand journalism: Back In Iraq 2.0: Epilogue: A Question of Truth

But thatís nothing compared to what the Iraqi people have had to go through, and what theyíre facing. To a certain degree, the same goes for the people of America who, it may be, were lied to about the reasons for this war.

An amazing account of a journey through Iraq. He has some insights into what’s going on that you won’t see on CNN or Fox News.