Hardly worth a blog post, but it snowed here in Baghdad this morning. I can think of no other place on earth were it can go from 130 degrees to snow. Of course the Iraqis were beside themselves running about in ski parkas, scarves and flip flops. The correspondents had to file a report on the event, which pissed them off to no end. "Snow is not news!", one of them decried. Nonetheless all of the other bureaus were carrying it, so...
Friday, January 11, 2008
Snow Day
Hardly worth a blog post, but it snowed here in Baghdad this morning. I can think of no other place on earth were it can go from 130 degrees to snow. Of course the Iraqis were beside themselves running about in ski parkas, scarves and flip flops. The correspondents had to file a report on the event, which pissed them off to no end. "Snow is not news!", one of them decried. Nonetheless all of the other bureaus were carrying it, so...
1 comment:
It sure seemed newsworthy to the children...you captured such joy in one of their faces and such premature age in another.
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