10,000 hits!

Big news for Talented Earthquake Productions today, I have 10,000 visits! 10,007, to be exact. So that's 10,000, plus James Bond.

And 14,256 page views! Woo hoo!

We will return to blogging about deep and meaningful issues shortly.

I am tagging this post with "Angelina Jolie," because I need to tag it with something, and why not a beautiful woman who is a great actress and very politically active?

Fun with geneaology

How bizarre is this: Some geneaologists in New England, apparently with too much time on their hands, discovered some interesting connections. Barack Obama is distantly related to Brad Pitt, and Angelina Jolie is distantly related to Hillary Clinton. Maybe I should do some more genealogical research! I hope I'm related either Claire Danes or Natalie Portman.

Angelina Jolie in the WaPo

Angelina Jolie wrote an Op-Ed piece in the Washington Post. Very cool! I knew there was a reason I liked her. It's an interesting piece, because she calls for more humanitarian aid, specifically so Iraqis can come home. She's undecided about the surge, noting that the soldiers she talked to "miss home but feel invested in Iraq." I think she's expressing the ambivalence that a lot of us feel - we desperately want to get out, but we don't want to abandon the Iraqi people. In this respect, her focus on supporting the UN High Commissioner for Refugees is appropriate. It would be great to see the US working closely with the UN.