Links posted on April 09, 2008
WFMU has a blog entry describing a completely amazing pool at the top of Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The thing that is so amazing about it is that the current is so slow you can hang out over the edge of the falls and look down (more pics).
Bush at 61% in recent poll -- In a Pew Research Center poll of professional historians, Bush earned an approval rating of 61%, inasmuch as 61% approved of certifying him the "worst president ever". Another 35% withheld their full approval, choosing only to place him in the bottom ten, aside Buchanan (shattered the union, financial panics), Pierce (Bleeding Kansas) and Harding (Teapot Dome corruption, sex scandals).
“No individual president can compare to the second Bush,” wrote one. “Glib, contemptuous, ignorant, incurious, a dupe of anyone who humors his deluded belief in his heroic self, he has bankrupted the country with his disastrous war and his tax breaks for the rich, trampled on the Bill of Rights, appointed foxes in every henhouse, compounded the terrorist threat, turned a blind eye to torture and corruption and a looming ecological disaster, and squandered the rest of the world’s goodwill. In short, no other president’s faults have had so deleterious an effect on not only the country but the world at large.”
Requiem for a deli - let me wax nostalgic for a place the rest of you may not know about: the famous Rascal House Deli in Miami Beach just closed. This was a Jewish Deli from the old old school (the one they tore down to build the old school). I remember there used to be lines around the block to get in -- different queues for 2, 3, 4, 5+ in your party. When you sat down they laid out rolls and a bucket of pickled stuff (such a nosh!) while you waited for your reuben or lox platter to come out. Azoy gait es.