Article from The Australian newspaper about the impending cancer treatment of Christopher Hitchens, celebrity journalist, atheist and curmudgeon. Treatment for this form of cancer is pretty awful (as are they all, really). The radiation therapy leaves the throat pretty incapable of swallowing food. This link is included here for news. Any sort of comment linking …

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Turns out I’m a compact chest of drawers. Oddly enough, I seem to be a bed and a chair as well, so perhaps I’m a range. What kind of IKEA furniture are you? Go here and find out. HT: Nathan, who got it from Anna.

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This is the coolest feature ever. I’m just sorry I can’t presently use it because it would involve the prohibitive expense of international phone calls. Maybe there’s a workaround with Skype or something that will prove to be cheaper, or they’ll come up with local numbers. It's happened to all of us. The night starts …

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