....that he really likes reading interesting articles about the Middle Eastern conflict because it's one of those train-wreck subjects that's endlessly and simultaneously fascinating and horrifying, and he encourages people to post such articles and links to the list, but he also wants to make a small plea for using the "Scouted" tags for topics related to Brin, SF, or science in some way, because after all that was the original purpose of the "Scouted" tag: to encourage folks to seek out on-topic sorts of things to discuss.
He asks this knowing full well that everything is Brin and that he himself has abused the tag from time to time. He told me this while I was trying to snap his photo for the Weekly Sousaphone. :-) Marvin Long Austin, Texas "Never flay a live Episiarch." -- Galactic Proverbs 7563:34(j)
