NOT ALL MUSLIMS ARE NUTS
Good article from the Baltimore Sun. Javeed Akhter discusses how terrorists abuse the Islamic writings, twisting them for their own agenda:

Those who practice or sanction suicide bombing consider it a form of martyrdom. But suicide by any name is still suicide and is explicitly prohibited in Islam. Injunctions of the Quran and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad prohibit it in unequivocal terms. Similarly, killing of innocents is expressly prohibited. It is not collateral damage but callous murder.

Hope this is required reading at Gitmo.

ADVENTURES IN DINING OUT
Rule 1: If you skip out on a big bill, don't go to another restaurant, owned by the same Judo-trained manager, on the same night.

FICKLE WORSHIPPERS.

I HAVE PICTURES!
I finally created a Flickr account, and I'm slowly adding pictures to it. You can view my work in progress here.

CUBA!!!

Right now I’m flying over Cuba! Around 32000 feet up, barely six miles over this communist country. Hard to see a lot of details, because of partly cloudy skies, but I can make out farms, a few roads, and the occasional village. I see absolutely no traffic on the roads. Ah, the worker’s paradise.

I’m not stopping here, of course. I’m on my way to Jamaica for a quick project.