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Well, I just went to the crime prevention meeting that my apartment complex was holding. I found out what a dismal neighborhood I really live in; only four or five other residents showed up, not counting the off-duty sheriff's deputy who was giving the talk. One of them was a former Scottsdale police officer, who had been robbed twice in the six months he's lived here, and who pointed out all kinds of inadequacies in the apartment complex's security. For example, this is the only apartment complex for miles east or west that isn't gated.

I suppose this cements my decision to move to the complex next door. The gated complex.

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Many people have recounted the joke, that the best kind of justice for bin Laden would be to give him a sex change and give him back to the Taliban.

The chairwoman of Women for Women was on MSNBC, saying that one of the most poignant moments in her work in the Middle East was when she vectored that meme, the response was that it was too bad there was no such operation. When she said that there was such an operation, the other person said that they wished they could get one for their daughter, so that she would become a boy and be able to work.

Surely, a definitive moment in the history of jokes. Does anyone here know any others? Perhaps some high-level Iraqi colonel who joined up because of the "For Sale: Iraqi gun, only dropped once" joke?

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I have this constant urge to eat today.

In fact, I've eaten a lot today.

Three meals and plenty of snacks. I should feel done, but I don't.

Perhaps not enough courses in each meal; I just ate lots of stir-fry and rice for lunch and dinner.

Perhaps I just need cheese? Hmm.