Sen. Orrin Hatch Writes 'Extremely Catchy' Hanukkah Song

It’s not April, so I’m assuming this isn’t NPR’s idea of a clever holiday joke…

Snow Day, Wisconsin, 2009

China’s Economic Power Unsettles the [Indonesian] Neighbors

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/world/asia/10jakarta.html?hp=&pagewanted=all

Didik J. Rachbini, a professor and the founder of an economic research institute, said that in the past four years, Indonesia had swung from more or less parity in bilateral trade to a deficit equal to one-third of its annual exports to China — and rising.

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Can we get a dog like this?

Can we get a dog like this?

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I mean, think about it. I’m teaching English abroad. That’s like, well, I don’t know… A man teaching women how to pee standing up— doesn’t really mean the man is gifted in any way, he just knows something the people around him don’t.
My sister, whose humor is unrivaled

Record snowfall at 1 a.m., Wisconsin, 2009

Interesting development in America's HIV/AIDS strategy

This NYT article appears to support the idea that the Obama administration is fundamentally pragmatic in its approach to HIV/AIDS— and is therefore destined to disappoint partisans on both sides of the issue:

“As the Obama administration slowly unveils its global AIDS plan, the drive to put more people on drugs is being scaled back as emphasis is shifted to prevention and to diseases that cost less to fight, including pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria and fatal birth complications.”

Brilliant.

Brilliant.

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The Night Before Snow Day, Wisconsin, 2009

White light from the window, fresh snow behind the house. I love you with the clarity of morning light on new snow. Click for high-res photo

White light from the window, fresh snow behind the house.

I love you with the clarity of morning light on new snow.

“Think of us!” she said that night when she turned and flew up the steps rapidly. And it was as if I could think of nothing else. We two and the stairs ascending infinitely.

- Henry Miller, Sexus

Dresser, 2009 Click for high-res photo

Dresser, 2009

Nobody should be spurned or rejected who gives even the illusion of feeling. How could I tell what struggles he had made, and was still making perhaps, to rise to the surface? What right had I to judge him— or anybody? If people smile at you, take your arm, give off a glow, it must be that there is something in them which responds. Nobody is altogether dead.

- Henry Miller, Sexus

Bar Luce, Seoul, 2009 Click for high-res photo

Bar Luce, Seoul, 2009