Monthly Archives: February 2006

The flu season

I’ve been battling the flu all weekend. I think I’m finally winning, but I’m still miserable (though I can sit up now, that’s a plus). Hopefully I’ll be back tomorrow. I don’t even want to know what’s going on in the world right now (except that it’s snowing here and that sucks). [...]

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Venezuela helps U.S. poor

Citgo estimates that it will be distributing some 44.5 million gallons of discounted heating oil and giving another 258,000 gallons free to homeless shelters.
Blumenthal said about 15,000 low-income Connecticut citizens would benefit from the deal with Citgo, a refiner and gasoline retailer owned by Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.

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Baghdad Burning

I really don’t have the energy to do any kind of lengthy post today, but I wanted to mention an excellent blog that Cassandra at The Atheist Mama linked to today. It’s written by an Iraqi woman living in Baghdad, hence the name “Baghdad Burning”. I was especially touched by “The Raid“.

It’s almost [...]

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