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May 22, 2007
The Secret History of the Potato
Awww baby . . I love the sexy, sexy subjects of history and the sensual hot-buttered passion of the potato.
Also, it's interesting. 'Cause taters is good eatin'.
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A photo essay showing the aftermath of the Chernobyl Incident.
[Flash VIA Slate] Here are disturbing and hopeful pictures of Belorussian children in asylums, orphanages and hospitals. Here catatonia, terror, cancer and deformity coalesce in playground laughter. Here are their distraught, melancholic and grief-wracked parents and the nurses that care for them.
While the narrative borders on that sort of armchair ego-pith that normally brings out the misanthropist in me, the naked humanity presented overpowered the man behind the camera and brought tears to my eyes.
WARNING: Many of these pictures show deformed children.
A book a fortnight
- in which award-winning Yann Martel (Life of Pi) sends Canada's Prime Minister suggested volumes to read, along with quite fascinating letters.
The response from Mr. Harper has been underwhelming.