Reconstruction

Well, I don't know if it'll get better as I heal up, but my nose is a little off center since my surgery. My sinuses feel great though even with a little cold.

Speaking of reconstruction, I have the pics up from last January and December, and I also added the photos which were integral to one of my favorite posts ever from September '05, which I've reposted below:

Little Brown People

This morning I received an email forward entitled “Why oil sells for $67 a barrel” which contained several photos of what is purported to be some Arab sheik’s ultra-opulent home, including this one:

First off, some semantics. The proper term isn’t why, but because oil sells for $67 a barrel (or more). It's simple supply and demand. This is why:

The obvious implication of the email, of course, is not to serve as a lesson in basic economics but to foment hatred toward brown people who dress different, talk funny and worship the wrong way. Thus making it more acceptable to torture and kill them. Of course, it seems odd to me that most of the brown people getting the blunt end of the Democracy Stick tend to live like this:

Meanwhile, the ones profiting off our consumption tend to get treated like this:

Methinks that if government has to blow shit up, as governments invariably will, they may be hitting the wrong targets.