usual saturday evening life blues with Bob in Lulu Carpenter’s. sitting at a table sipping our tea, reading the news papers. a press conference on the eve of Condoleeza Rice’s visit to Beirut and Jerusalem. “What we’re seeing here, in a sense, is the growing — the birth pangs of a new Middle East,” the warmonger declares. my stomach turns around as i read the sentence a couple of times, oh my god… they are not going to stop, these bulldozers of death and destruction…