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Grandpa passed on Friday

March 28, 2006

We’ve been busy since then cleaning out his apartment. My job included writing his obituary, which will be in The Washington Post and The Reston Times tomorrow, and going through all his old photos and scanning them onto the computer. I will also be making a photo collage that will be exhibited at his funeral. [...]

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God bless America… and no one else

March 31, 2005

While reading an article about the death of Terry Schiavo, I learned of Bush and the Christian Right’s attempts to return America to a “Culture of Life”. So… what exactly do the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have to do with this goal? Even if we ignore the death of non-Americans… wait! what am I talking [...]

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Warning: the following is a non-PC statement

January 13, 2005

You may want to lynch me after reading this, or at least tell me to denounce my citizenship. 10 DEAD IN MUDSLIDE!!! OH THE HUMANITY! 1) 10 people is nothing. Worldwide, 10 people die of AIDS every 2 minutes. Of course, if you know one of these people, 1 can mean everything, but c’mon, to [...]

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Sudan

January 10, 2005

While I feel terrible about the tsunami disaster, I also feel disturbed by the media attention that has been given to it, compared to other disasters. As many people have probably died in Darfur (Sudan) and think of all the people dying of AIDS in Africa. My thought is, the tsunami was not something that [...]

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Yasser Arafat dies

November 11, 2004

I can’t explain why, but I’m kind of sad that he got ill and passed away. He’s been chairman of the PLO my entire lifetime. It’s just strange that there will he will no longer be there. I have a lot of sympathy for Palestinians. I think that the European media shows their plight much [...]

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There’s a book about my high school class

August 4, 2004

I can’t sleep, so I’ll tell you about what I’m reading, cause it’s really good. “No Ordinary Time, Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II” by Doris Kearns Goodwyn (winner of the Pulitzer Prize). Okay, it’s very, very long, but it’s extremely well-written. I’m about 1/3 of the way through right [...]

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