status report, for those still following this

i’m somewhat better — still achy, but the fever’s passed; still coughing but no more blood.

still can’t do most simple exertion, including talking, without coughing. and going into the cold air outdoors? like sticking a knife in me.

but gimme two more days and i’ll be golden. i know me and how i heal.

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i have been listening to the discussions about Ariel Sharon a lot these past few days.

i recall a time when he was vilified as a butcher for massacres in Lebanon.

i am thinking of Yasser Arafat, Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon, Menachem Begin, and various Nobel Peace Prizes.

did you know that Mohandas Gandhi was rejected for a Nobel by the Prize Committee because his career had shown shifts and turns and inconsistencies?

funny about humans. you can always count on them to be human, by which i mean that they are made of contradictions. and you can also count on this fact: that those contradictions will be recalled when recall is useful, ignored when ignorance is useful.