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It strikes me that bands of armed men roaming streets looting are tolerated a great deal more here than they are in Iraq. Here they are not described as insurgents, neither are they shot indiscriminately. Desperate civilians in hospitals here, who don't have medical supplies or food, are being airlifted to safe places. Desperate Iraqi civilians can die right there in the hospitals for all we care. I guess it's a good thing the media has succeeded in dehumanising Iraqis, otherwise we might notice that they're rather worse off than the Lousianans yet we care less, and God forbid anyone should feel the slightest bit guilty about that.

In other news, we had dinner out at a Yemenite restaurant yesterday. It was very nice; there was a thing on the dessert menu called Mud Balls. I asked the waitress what that involved (fearing coffee, or some such), and being Russian/Israeli with middling English, she described it as "Er...it's balls of chocolate...covered in chocolate." With a description like that, who can go wrong? It was VERY nice!

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YAY fresh dates are back in season. I love fresh dates. They're all tart and surprising when you bite into them, but then you munch them and they're sweet, but a light kind of sweet, not nearly as cloying as dried dates.

I have W's cold, so I bought lots of dates as a cheering measure.