Picture: Quiet crossroads in Loogootee shortly after noon today. Siesta time?
Ruby Tuesday: And what came to mind when you saw 'Ruby Tuesday'? This (google rank #4) or this (google rank #1)? Or something else?
Netflix movie this afternoon: Traffic. Michael Douglas stars in this movie dealing with drugs and drug traffic. Lots of action and meaningful stuff on this side of the Mexican border and on the other side, even including subtitles on occasion (when in Mexico). Not a message of hope by any means. Gave it a four - we both enjoyed it.
From WAPO: Iran shut down a suspected effort to build nuclear weapons four years ago. Sure am glad to hear that. Sorry to see our president again getting the intelligence wrong. Glad the CIA is speaking up. Even gladder that the Press is picking it up and reporting it. And now the Press wants to know when the president knew what he knew, like maybe he knew before all the saber rattling about the real danger that we are all in because of Iran's growing nuclear capability. Good for them. I'm interested too though I already know the answer.
Update: Via tpm, Seymour Hersh on CNN saying that WH has know for over a year and that they tried to keep it out of the NIE. My oh my. Doesn't that beat all...
Started a new book, another one of Diane's which she thought I might enjoy as it has a setting in Burma: The Piano Tuner by Daniel Mason. So far have traveled around London, across the English Channel to Paris and then by rail to Marseille; from there back on the water to the Suez Canal and down into the Red Sea and onto Bombay and then via rail to Calcutta. Destination: Burma.
It was as I was steaming down the Red Sea with the hero of the book, Edgar Drake, that I wondered how much of Africa to the east and Arabia to the west he was getting to see. Now my thinking was conditioned by the narrowness of the Suez Canal so I was thinking maybe Africa and Arabia weren't all that far apart. Well, just how far is it from one side of the Red Sea to the other? Have any idea? I had a rough idea after looking at a globe and eyeballing the distance between South Bend and Chicago; thought maybe it was comparable, about ninety miles, not a distance very easily spanned by the human eye thus making the Africa on my right and Arabia on my left not a very good construct. But the ninety miles happens to be way off. According to Wikipedia, it's widest point is a hundred and ninety miles. Wow.
So it goes. World turns.
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