Well, off to bed to read more of A Canticle for Leibowitz … something I’ve been meaning to read for about 15 years now. Not too shabby…*very* Catholic. Interesting perspectives on post-apocalypse rebuilding too. Iā€™m going to take this one slow.


B-52s
Title: Mesopotamia
Album: Mesopotamia

Turn your watch
Turn your watch back
About a hundred thousand years
A hundred thousand years
I’ll meet you by the third pyramid
I’ll meet you by the third pyramid
Ah come on, that’s right, I want
we’ll meet in Mesopotamia

We’re going down to meet it
I ain’t no student
Feel those vibrations
Of ancient culture
I know a neat excavation
Before I talk I should read a book
But there’s one thing That I do know
There’s a lot of ruins In Mesopotamia

Six or eight thousand years ago
They laid down the law
They laid down the law
aa aa aa aa aa aaa
Six or eight thousand years ago
They laid down the law
aa aa aa aa aa aaa

I’ll meet you by the third pyramid
I’ll meet you by the third pyramid
Ah come on, that’s right, I want
to meet in Mesopotamia

We’re going down to meet it
Now I ain’t no student
Hear those vibrations
Of ancient culture
I know a neat excavation
Before I talk I should read a book
Mesopotamia that’s where I wanna go
But there’s one thing that I do know
Mesopotamia that’s where I wanna go
There’s a lot of ruins in Mesopotamia

Six or eight thousand years ago
They laid down the law
They laid down the law
aa aa aa aa aa aaa
Six or eight thousand years ago
They laid down the law
aa aa aa aa aa aaa
In Mesopotamia
aa aa aa aa aa aaa
They laid down the law
aa aa aa aa aa aaa
In Mesopotamia
aa aa aa aa aa aaa

http://www.lindsay.k12.ca.us/egypt/pyramids.gif

Nighters, dear journal. Loves to my beloved, and hugs to my behugged. šŸ™‚

follow up on earlier auction

Captain Kirk’s Chair closed at $265,000.00
Captain Pike’s, $7000

SOMEbody has a lot of disposable income.

In other news, The Newsroom diner has good breakfasts!

I sing Mm-bop poorly, but enjoy doing it, anyhow.

Wow.. thunder and lightning *big* time now… I got home just in time.

Yay! Launchcast is back… good ol’ yahoo bought it. Thanks for the heads up, sweetalyssm! A pity my old station isn’t there anymore… well, we can rebuild it.. make it stronger, faster, better than before. šŸ™‚

I missed out on dinner with the mom and bro… but it’ll probably happen next week. meanwhile, *hungry*

via lgf, lj entry #4399

A wave of husband killings.

Iranian women are becoming increasingly sick of the male-dominated Islamic nightmare land in which they live. Divorce is not an option.

While Iranian men can divorce almost at will, a woman who wants a divorce must go through a legal battle that can take up to 20 years, said lawyer Sara Irani. Even then, she said, it might end with the woman failing to dissolve the marriage.

Women are basically property. Slaves, by any other name. What a sad waste. This is why Islamic societies are failing.

Under Iran’s Islamic laws, a man is allowed to keep four wives at one time, a right not granted to women.

Even if a husband is having an affair, he can claim to have undertaken a “sigheh,” or temporary marriage. It’s a contract allowed under Iranian law that allows a man and woman to be “married” for any length of time they choose. Critics call it a form of legalized prostitution.

Nor does a wife trapped in a violent marriage have much recourse against her husband.

“A woman has to bring four men witnesses confirming violence against her by her husband,” Irani said. “How is a woman in Iran expected to keep four men in her bedroom to witness her husband beating her?”

And this relentless oppression is resulting in an unprecedented wave of husband killings. Root causes, anyone?

“During 30 years of matrimonial life, Hedayat always beat me. He was a doubter and skeptical of everything and didn’t trust me. He had made the life hell for me,” Ferdows told authorities, who have identified her only by her first name.

Ferdows paid a man the equivalent of $3,750 to stab her husband to death three years ago, prosecutors said. The crime wasn’t exposed until this February, when police found her husband’s remains in an abandoned building. She had told people her husband abandoned her.