sábado, 3 de maio de 2008
Some of the top US men aren't going to the Olympics and some of the women didn't play Fed Cup. Isn't this damaging US team spirit?
When I woke up yesterday morning and looked out of the window, I saw a huge funnel of smoke rising in the sky. It looked like the Capitol Records building was on fire but, luckily, it wasn’t. A nightclub in the neighborhood of Hollywood and Vine was burning away.
I’m used to grabbing up my computer, birth certificate, passport, and naturalisation papers, and preparing to evacuate because I live in the Hollywood Hills and fire is a natural part of clearing the underbrush.
I take those naturalisation papers in case there’s any question about my citizenship. I don’t want to be shipped backed to England or arrested by the Homeland Security Department for, oh, I don’t know, growing sprouts. Four years ago, an artist named Steve Kurtz had the misfortune of calling 911 because his wife was dying of heart failure. The paramedics who came to his house noticed that he had a home laboratory and called the FBI.
Kurtz is a professor of art at SUNY Buffalo and he had harmless bacteria in his petri dishes which he uses in his art projects. He was detained by the Joint Terrorism Task Force and the Justice Department sought bioterrorism charges under the Patriot Act before settling on mail fraud charges related to purchasing the bacteria. Thankfully, all charges were dropped last week.
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