Prehistoric Meme

Please share the fifth sentence of your twentythird entry, along with these instructions.

As it happens the fifth and last sentence of that entry was a link to Charles Livingston Bull's cover of J. Irving Crump's Og, Boy of Battle; click on the pic to see more.

The Saga of Og

THE great snake dwelt in the dismal, murky, stinking, mud and slime of the great swamp into which the river, that coursed by the cliff abode of the Hairy People disappeared. ( Read more... )

Strange and startling sounds came from out the mud, too; gargling, choking sounds as if someone below that slime were struggling and gasping for breath, as great bubbles of swamp gas came up through the ooze and floated about on the reeking water. And at night these bubbles would become alight with ghostly flames and go floating off through the gloom to disappear into the heart of the great swamp while the Hairy People watched them from the doorway of their caves in the cliff side and trembled with fear. The swamp was indeed a place of terror.

Rejected by Police, Bright Man Works in Prison

"This kind of puts an official face on discrimination in America against people of a certain class. I maintain you have no more control over your basic intelligence than your eye color or your gender or anything else."

Four Key States May Hinge on Arab Vote

The President's disgraceful capitulation to Ariel Sharon may not gain him many Jewish votes, and cost him dearly among the Arabs of Florida, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania, where the race is particularly close. See Arab-American vote looms large by Jim Lobe in the always interesting Asia Times.

Iraq's Crescent Darkens

If you recall yesterday's version of the new national flag, the colors, except for the yellow (for the Kurds), were taken from that of Israel. Today's version is a little darker.