I want to thank Sheril for the last post. I've literally been so slammed on the road I haven't been able to write anything. Indeed, I don't even have any clothes to wear; I didn't get to pack for the tour due to travel upheaval. (Hence my appearance in a T-shirt with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now.) However, I do take time out from my tour craziness to point out to you a disturbing event unfolding today and tomorrow: Okinawa is about to get hit by a Category 4 equivalent typhoon, Man-Yi. Indeed the storm may strengthen into a supertyphoon just before landfall. Later, Man-Yi is forecast to trouble the rest of Japan and perhaps even Tokyo, though it should be weaker by then. Japan is not unfamiliar with typhoons, but still, this is one powerful (and massive) storm. Here's the latest satellite image:
Unrelatedly, let me leave with some ...
