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back to sen "Obviously governments in the affected countries can be blamed also..." Actually you can lay quite a lot of blame on the governments in affected countries. In most cases, there is enough food (either in the country or in the region) to feed people in need. Famine is a political...

debatable ethics So here's a question: what if somebody isn't in great physical agony, but immense mental distress? Does their right to die still hold, or is the argument that their mental distress is clouding their judgement? Since the assumption appears to be that suicidal tendencies are at...

fastmail www.fastmail.fm, then strip all the formatting for the most minimal webmail ever. no, you don't get as much storage space as the big webmail providers, but they're much nicer, I've never had any trouble with the service in nearly 3 years, you can buy more bandwidth or storage space as...

how do you turn a duck into a soul singer AND make me cry? "Hope She'll Be Happier" by Bill Withers, from the Live at Carnegie Hall set... when he hits the long note in the middle, I crash the car. Plus, for good measure, "Every Word Except Goodbye" by Peter Mulvey, from Trouble with Poets.

Diblo! No discussion on this topic complete with mentioning the king of soukouss guitar, Diblo Dibala. I've seen him with a couple of groups, in a duo with Tony Remy, and solo - and he is unbelieveable. One of the real geniuses of African music, and you can hear him playing behind most of the...