This was in the Los Angeles Times yesterday (reported by the AP): “In Iran, Pizzas Will Now be Called Loaves”. They’re getting rid of foreign words that have inundated their language. “‘Chat’ will become ‘a short talk.'”

Also, a photo ran of a man in Tyre, Lebanon, gathering his books strewn about from a bombing. There is so much about the war that saddens me, but I had to cut this image out of the paper. It’s on the wall above this computer. Such a visceral image.