Tommie Hagan: Soulful Cemetary

Not the latest horror blockbuster, just the spam of the day.

Apologies

Found via TomPaine.com: a letter to the Iraqi people apologising for the invasion and continuing occupation.

There's no option for signing as a citizen of Airstrip One or the 53rd State. We wonder if there's a UK equivalant somewhere: There ought to be

On the one hand...

... an interesting theory.

On the other hand, whilst it's neat that this allows for both right-handed and strongly right-handed people, there seems to be no room for the same distinction for south paws:

• DD=strongly right-handed
• DC=mostly right-handed
• CC=right-handed or left-handed

The ravens' brother is strongly right-handed, our dad is right-handed, our mother was right-handed, but close to ambidextrous (which also doesn't figure: DC or CC but leaning right?), we are strongly left-handed, very much a mirror of our brother, M is left-handed, but not so much as we are. But the left and far left dstinction is missing from the otherwise interesting theory.

And what do we mean by strongly left-handed? As a baby, if anything was placed in our right hand, we swapped, every time. We still can't handle spoons in our right hand, tho', since there are two distinct sets of actions for knife and fork, we do those the "correct" way round. (Correct for English table manners, that is!) We learned mirror writing first, then swapped it round (having little problem with reversed letters, unlike our right-handed Looby Loo). And you really don't want to watch us peeling veg with a sharp knife (kitchen knives are handed too).