Sinus infection, news from NY

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Most unfortunately, I have one of the 3-4 sinus infections I get annually. So I'm not sure I'll be doing much today besides being grateful that my MIL wants to come play with the boys this afternoon and reading in bed. Nonetheless, a note that Em-i-lis Recipes just reached 75 delicious ideas, many of them simple. So fear not, jump in, pick one and have fun.

Also, did you see that NYC just decided to mandate sex-education? By this I mean real sex-ed, none of that abstinence-only BS that does not work. So, yay for you NYC. What a bastion of progressive thinking you are: gay marriage, sex-ed. Cheers!

I will attempt to rouse myself later, but you might just get pitiful musings on my sorry nose, aching face and irritating cough.

Somalia

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I am literally sickened by the situation in Somalia- the Shabab and the "leaders" in Mogadishu are inhuman, barbarous animals who, I hope, will ultimately have to pay with their lives for inflicting such torture and horror on their countrymen and women. How can such treatment, such utter disregard for life, such indifference and cruelty be perpetrated in the "true meaning" of a religion? Though there are innumerable numbers of historical precedents, I am always shocked anew by the horrors religious conviction can justify. Why is there not a greater outcry from non-Shabab muslims condemning the Shabab's behavior in the name of Islam. How could any person espousing his utter commitment to a faith refuse food and other aid for his starving and dying peers (perpetrated by this "religious" person) simply because the provisions came from non-Muslims? Only someone who has become such a fanatic, such a zealot, that he can no longer be considered anything but the most feral, grotesque and dangerous of animals.