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It's National Send Your Porn to DGlenn week. Happy to help, dglenn. :-)

According to an article in Ha'Aretz, 18% of Israelis live below the poverty line. The story lacks a key piece of data, though: the number of those who are willfully unemployed, like some of the right-wing folks who argue that men should spend their lives studying instead of supporting their large families. Has the real poverty rate actually changed?

I'm pleasantly surprised by this season of Enterprise (so far). There have been some stupid bits, but they are doing a competent job of telling a story over the course of several episodes instead of Trek's usual single-episode resolution with reset button. I hope they can keep it up. I hope they already have the ending written and that it's plausible.

Alas, it was not such a happy week for West Wing.

You know there's something wrong with a suite of software demos and test code when it's faster to write a new application (albeit a small one) than to get an existing one to run. Fooey. We're supposed to be doing a better job with maintenance. (I didn't care about the application per se; I needed to see a couple specific features in action, for documentation purposes.)

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