Fscking excellent dinner.
Bread, Parrano cheese, a variety of good olives, and a damned fine Trappist ale. All eaten while listening to good musing and rereading Doug Hofstadter's explanation of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem, which I have to say is remarkably well-written.

Said Trappist ale is also rather strong, which just makes this all the better. This has been a very relaxing evening.

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The situation in Israel
The NY Times has an interesting summary of the fighting in Israel after four years. Interesting for the statistics it provides, including the sidebar with a partial breakdown of casualties and the numbers on suicide bombings.

It's bloody depressing. What's more depressing is that there's no obvious way out of this.

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