Nina Hachigian writes a very <a href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd2ecfe-88d0-405d-af94-6b17bd723ed7">thoughtful essay</a> in <em>The New Republic</em>
Via Michael Tomasky, an interview with veteran UN negotiator Lakhdar Brahimi, on how the latter would advise President-elect Obama to deal with the crisis in Gaza.He said that he will pay attention to
I have been unemployed for several months, and during all that time I had to endure endless applications that made me spend about one hour or more each one of them. The employers make us answer a long list of questions about our personality that should be reserved only for the people that employers are interested in hiring. That way they would not waste our time and we could send more applications per day.
One of the more serious problems our planet is facing is global warming. I have noticed that where I live only two families care about recycling: mine and one of my neighbors. There should be more vigilance about that. There should be a screening on people's wastes and fine the ones who mix up recycling items with regular garbage. Also hunting innocent animals should be illegal. Sarah Palin should be held accountable for all the animals she has victimized. That's animal cruelty.
