I just realized the perfect way to articulate the growing scandal about the numerous pictures of Lebanon which have been manipulated, staged, and misrepresented, which all started with a Reuters photographer who added extra smoke to a Beirut fire and also drew fake missiles onto a Israeli jet which then appeared to be firing multiple missiles ( Read more... )

I was about a block away when this happened....see you all at home in Bellevue in about 24 hours!

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150886023917&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Shhh don't tell my mom.

I'm doing just fine...back in Tel Aviv after a few days in the north in a kibbutz and Haifa ( Read more... )

Get skype and holler at JeffROakley....heading out a few hours!!!! So excited!

I never post. But Zarqawi is dead!

Leaving for Cyprus day after tomorrow....sweet.

I just sat down to finish my 10-12 page econ paper, which I was almost 6 pages into. I am now only done with 5 pages, after discovering for some reason that the margins had been at 1.25 inches while I was writing it yesterday. Correct 1 inch margins mean I still have at least as much writing to do as I have done, and I am already pretty much out of ( Read more... )

Dear Jeff,

Congratulations, your proposal to the Values and Vocations Project has been tentatively approved in the amount of $5500.

This grant will support your proposal to travel to Cyprus to participate in the International Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution Middle East Symposium June 11-July 7, 2006.

EVERY FUCKING FALL 2006 CLASS IS IN THE AFTERNOON/EVENING AT THE SAME TIME AS WATER POLO PRACTICE!

...unless it is at 8:30 AM

shoulda gone to bed hours ago.

why did i sign up for 830 class again?

South Dakota legislature passed a bill banning abortion, intending to give the Supreme Court a direct challenge and force it to reconsider Roe v Wade. With Roberts and Alito new to the court, we may be in for a wild ride. Interestingly, one article I read a while back argued that reversal of Roe v Wade could prove beneficial to pro-choice folk, as ( Read more... )