16 Shevaṭ 5768: Measure Your Feet Day/National Handwriting Day

Greetings.

Worthy cause of the day: “A Progressive Economy”. Please sign and tell your Congresspeople that the wealthy do not need yet another tax cut.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza”
  
• “Cappuccino Coast”
  
• “Study finds work-related stress can kil”
  
• “The Ethics of Deception in Medicine”
  
• “Future of Top U.S. Particle Physics Lab in Jeopardy”
  
• “The Tree of Life Has Lost a Branch”
  
• “Web plagiarism a serious problem: UK teachers”
  
• “Palestinians Fire On News Crew”
  
• “Maine woman, 87, gets a sweet response”

Today’s weird thing is The Kafka Project, dedicated to the celebrated weird author Franz Kafka. Enjoy and share the weirdness with anyone who upon waking up from anxious dreams has discovered that in bed he has been changed into a monstrous verminous bug.

Aaron

PS: If you have no clue what the joke is, please see the opening sentence of The Metamorphosis.