reading:
John Bowe (ed): Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Gail Simone: Birds of Prey
Sarah Vowell: Take the Cannoli
Howard Zinn: People's History of the U.S.
So I was digging through my in box and I found this - probably one of the funniest emails I've received in recent history. A friend and I regularly disagree about whether or not it's a good thing that we have nuclear bombs (his position - he doesn't necessarily like them, but since they're out there, he'd prefer that we have as many as humanly possible). So I got this from him the other day:
I get breaking news from cnn on my email. Thought you guys would be interested in this.
--- BreakingNews@MAIL.CNN.COM wrote: > Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 08:31:03 -0400 > Reply-to: newseditor@MAIL.CNN.COM > From: BreakingNews@MAIL.CNN.COM > Subject: CNN Breaking News > To: TEXTBREAKINGNEWS@CNNIMAIL12.CNN.COM > > -- President Bush says United States, Russia agree > to substantially reduce nuclear arsenals. Los Angeles student, Liz Miller, is quoted as saying "I am thrilled that the president has made this choice. Speaking for vegetable eating hippies everywhere, I think this is a huge step forward in the war on nuclear war. I hope that the president and Russia don't just throw the bombs away, I hope they convert them into to Love or Happiness bombs if you will. So if ever the US in in danger of an attack we can fight back with love....and of course lettus." Miller then returned to her tofu burger.