An excellent article from WorkingForChange about the often unoticed work of wives of grunts (non-military women with husbands in the military) do and how they make do on some pretty sucky salaries.

Which Humor Troubles the Disposition of YOUR Body?

Cool article in the Washington Post about the "Once Upon a Time" Baghdad of literature and lore.

Speaking of the caves of Lascaux, I came across this excellent site: The cave of Lascaux

The Friday Five

1. If you had the chance to meet someone you've never met, from the past or present, who would it be?
Oh geez. There's so many! Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Susan B. Anthony. Ben Franklin. Jacques Cousteau. Jane Goodall. Einstein. Marie Curie. Kalpana Chawla. Lucretia Mott. Lucy (Australopithecus afrarensis). The individual from the Pleistocene era who carved the Venus figure. The painters of the caves at Lascaux... Gods, I could go on and on for days.

2. If you had to live in a different century, past or future, which would it be?
Hrm. If I had to choose I'd probably pick the far off future, since I have no idea what living in 3010 would be like.

3. If you had to move anywhere else on Earth, where would it be?
I like to travel, so there's a lot of places I'd be happy to stay temporarily, then pick up again and go someplace else. If I could move somewhere where there was unspoiled wilderness for miles, and I had several hundred acres of peace and quiet, a variety of seasons and I didn't have to worry about the stupidity of other people or governments, I'd go there.

4. If you had to be a fictional character, who would it be?
Hrmph. I don't think I can pick one - at the moment none really call out to me. When I'm reading I alway become one of the characters for a very brief time. (Then I promptly insert my own self into the story.) If I had to choose it'd be one of my *own* fictional characters from my childhood stories.

5. If you had to live with having someone else's face as your own for the rest of your life, whose would it be?
Ugh. I like mine, thank you very much. Someone else's wouldn't be mine.

This is too cool: Faz Restaurants.

Turns out "fazia" is also a word in Portuguese (I think it means "with") and a popular last name. And there's some kind of baseball card trading company called "Faz".

Oh and then there's this little sweetie.

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