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I THOUGHT I WOULD FAIL MISERABLY

Place the (United) States (via Look at This)
My score: 90% (45 perfect out of 50)
Average error: 27 miles
Time: 442 seconds

ON WOMEN AND MONEY

A Personal Service Announcement from Laurie Anderson (YouTube)

GUITAR FACE

Guitar face gallery

TEN-MINUTE STUDENT FILM ON VVAW

I was looking for a great documentary I saw last year at the VVAW (Vietnam Veterans Against the War) national meeting after-party—the one about how Mayor Daley managed to lose Chicago’s Vietnam vet memorial—but I found this instead.

VVAW 06 (YouTube)

LOSS

Scholarship Fund Honors Sgt. Shawna Morrison (Veteran)
Small Town Sorrow (NewsHour)

TODAY’S BLOGQUOTE

TODAY’S BLOGQUOTE
The problem is, these yahoos have managed an ugly trick. They have turned criticism of the policies of Bastards in Suits into criticism of The People in Uniform Getting Shot At. This, of course, is completely wrong, as one can easily tell the difference between the Bastards in Suits and The People in Uniform […]

MEMORIAL

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ROYAL SOCIETY HEAD DOOMSAYING

… at the Hay Festival:
“In a global village there will be global village idiots. And with this power, just one could be too many,” he said. These might not be fundamentalists, but those with the mentality of a computer virus designer or arsonist, he added. “Even a single person will have the capacity to cause […]

BIT OF OVERKILL

A total of 78 police officers were used, at a cost of �7,200, in the night-time operation to crack down on the anti-war protester Brian Haw in Parliament Square, it was disclosed yesterday.

The raid ran up a bill of �3,000 in overtime and �4,200 for “transport, catering and erection of road barriers”, said Sir Ian […]

MR ROGERS GOES TO WASHINGTON

Fred Rogers speaks at a Senate hearing in 1969 (YouTube)