syrinx

here's the evidence:

and here's spongebob after the read more link:

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I had been reading and misplacing Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl all last week. Took it to the doctor's office for my annual physical, along with my lunch box full of meds, and then couldn't find it that evening.

Some interesting tips about Victor Frankl at the wikipedia entry for him:

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Bob's bookshelf - selected recent readings or audiobook listenings of potential interest

Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World - by Susan Brind Morrow.
Listened to the audio CD recently. Part memoir, part etymology, and part
history of (mostly) the Finger Lakes region of New York and its transition
from an indigenous population to the dominant North American European culture,
from diverse species to relatively few predator species besides people, and
touches lightly (first published 1998) on the coming crisis in bee population.

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Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, many of the original documents regarding Naval Intelligence activities prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 have been released. And, Robert Stinnett tells us, they do not support the official story of US intelligence failures and a brilliant Imperial Japanese Navy military strategy culminating in a tragedy that no one could have anticipated. Instead, the documents provide the evidence that US cryptographers had cracked Japan's codes and not only intercepted messages throughout 1941, but that Pearl Harbor was known to be the target about two weeks in advance of the attack.The go ahead order for the attack was known in Washington about 15 hours in advance of the first wave of airplanes, yet no one picked up a phone to alert Admiral Kimmel or General Short at Pearl Harbor, so that the 3000 or so sailors and soldiers that died might have had a fighting chance.

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One of the more disturbing / humorous images of this past week was the joint George Bush-Angela Merkel press conference in Germany, in which "W" chose to discuss the roast boar that was to be the center of that evening's meal instead of, oh, say, the escalating violence between Israel and Hezbollah across the Lebanon border, following the recent violence between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza area. In case you didn't see it on The Daily Show, Mr. Bush responded to a question from a reporter about the escalating violence with "I thought he was going to ask about the pig".

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