You Can't Make Mistakes.

Figure this one out.

Question: A bulldozer is traveling toward the wall at the Gaza/Egypt border. If it strikes the wall at 25km per hour from a distance of 30 meters, how many Gazans will cross the border in the next week?

Answer: 800,000

Yeah, I just came up with that. I know. I’m hilarious. Go.

Lovelies, Gaza, and more.

Here I am in Second Cup again, about to order mine, and that artful masterpiece by the Black Eyed Peas, Lovely Lady Lumps just came on the PA. If you can’t ascertain from the title of this gem, it is a song about feminine anatomy, and quite filthy. I am trying to figure out how this stuff gets played in Egypt of all places, no matter the location. I fear that I am turning into a complete puritan. I have always thought of myself as liberal, but good Lord. Maybe it is more a matter of taste.

In other news, I will never connect to the internet from my apartment. At least, not in the foreseeable future. I knew that there might be complications with moving and having DSL connected in yet another place, but I never thought it would be this bad. It is a simple process complicated by endless bureaucracy. Figure it out Telecom Egypt.

My friend Mamoon recently had his phone line switched because of complications with his DSL. Somehow, in the month that he was on vacation out of Alexandria, the company managed to actually switch his phone number! They couldn’t figure out what was wrong with his internet for weeks and then said, “Oh! It is because you have a different phone number now!” ???!!!

There are no words for how stunningly, dazzlingly ridiculous that is.

Ah well, nothing to be done about it.

Before I go though, check out what is happening in Gaza at Rafah on the Egyptian border right now. Pretty crazy. I guess someone had to figure out a way to survive. Well done everyone.

Pressure on Gaza’s Border Mounts – 24. January 2008

Egypt ‘won’t force Gazans back’ – 23. January 2008

Gazans flood through Egypt border – 23. January 2008

I am not going to write about what is going on in Gaza right now, except to say that I believe it to be unjust. It would be considered unjust by the world community if it were happening anywhere else, to anyone else.

Rather, here are some of the thoughts of the people whose commentary I read. Perhaps they will be of interest to you.

In Two Hours All of the Gaza Strip Will Sink into Darkness Completely – Mona Elfarra

Israeli Atrocity on Gaza Citizens – Juan Cole

I hope that we all stop to ponder this in those ephemeral moments when we stop worrying about which talking-puppet might or might not be elected president in more than half a year.