Cycling Through the Dead Zone May 3, 2004February 25, 2017 WHY ALL THIS ATTENTION TO SPELLING, ANYWAY? Aoccdrnig to resecrah at Cmabridge Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS James Blakey: ‘I wouldn’t out too much stock in what Paul Craig Roberts writes. Here is a column he wrote where he compared be a slave in the American South and being a US taxpayer today.’ ☞ Thanks! My point in offering the Roberts column was not, by any means, to endorse all his views; rather, to show that it’s not just liberals who feel President Bush has done a disastrous job. THINGS WE CAN’T SEE OR SMELL CAN KILL US Thomas Whitaker: ‘When you have 15 solid minutes for an interesting read, this is a photo-essay of someone living near Chernobyl, who drove her motorcycle in through the ‘dead zone’ and recorded what lifeless conditions are there now.’ ☞ I meant to run this a week ago, on the April 26 anniversary of Chernobyl. It is well worth the time. And think as you go through it not just of the dramatic – a melt down. Think, too, of the perhaps more insidious . . . such as an accretion of toxic substances in things we eat. Tomorrow, I hope: Money!