Photos of the day

This one was from the LA times. The caption read -

"California Congressman Darrell Issa watches as a refugee woman screams "kill Bush" in Arabic as she holds aloft her baby that she delivered three days ago at a Catholic Relief Services shelter in the Aschrafieh area of Beirut." How embarrassing can it get? This is the same dude who bankrolled the recall of the Gray Davis in his effort to become Governor of California. Alas, Arnie jumped in and Issa had to pull out. The LA Times kills two birds with one stone. I don't know what has happened to my favorite paper over the last few months. Has the editorial team changed or something? Maybe upper management?




This one is also from the LA times gallery today. It features people doing something somewhere. It's here because I like it. M and her brother Hima and I went up the Santa Ynez mountains (perhaps Figueroa mountain) to watch the Perseid meteor shower tonight and were disappointed because we didn't know what to expect. Actually the "shower" was more like a trickle (from someone whose kidney failed). A few meteors every hour. But getting out there in the Santa Barbara backcountry is great because the valley has almost zero interference from the city lights. The Oso river/Paradise road, Cachuma Lake area is pitch black until moonrise.