I Found A Peanut: bombing video

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Friday, March 7, 2008

Times Square Bombing: Bomber Caught on Video: D.C. Letters Probably Not Connected

Officials investigating the bombing of a military recruitment center in New York's Times Square say that the letters mailed to congressional offices may not be linked. And, they say, the attack may be linked to not only prior bombings, but to "anarchist types" caught at the Canadian border recently.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Video: Miami Shootout Kills One, Injures Several, Locks Down Schools, Sends Baby to Hospital

Terror stalked a Miami neighborhood today as several people opened fire in a street shootout. One person was killed, and several more were injured, including a baby.

Police now are staging a manhunt in the Allapattah district for what they call "several" young men. So far, it's not known why the shootings took place. Local schools were locked down.

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Internet A Workplace for Terrorists, FBI Agent Says in Georgia Trial

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Video: Preview of Heath Ledger as The Joker In New Batman "Dark Knight" Movie

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Pakistan Terrorism: Suicide Bomber Kills at Least 22; Turmoil After Benazir Bhutto Killing Continues

Warning: graphic images. We struggled with the decision on whether or not to publish these images. We decided that as stomach-turning and horrific as they are, the records of terrorism attacks need to be seen. Terrorism and radical Islamism are not just vague philosophical concepts.They are deadly, dangerous, and they intend to launch these attacks in your hometown if they can.

The Peanut Man

The morning is cool, a mist rising off the land. Just past dawn, still sleepy. But you're moving on down the road anyway.

There, under the trees, steam rising from the boiling pot, blending into the wisps of fog. The peanut man.

With the sun still barely tipping over the rounded earth, and the early morning cries of birds, the crossroads up ahead, you think: what did Robert Johnson first see when he met up with the devil? The fire glows hot as the peanut man smiles, chanting "hot boiled peanuts, fresh, sack 'em up. Hot boiled peanuts."

He hands you the sack, wet, hot, tempting with the fullness of hot boiled peanuts. You both smile, changing your money, fragile slip of paper, for what he has to offer: heat, a crunch, a taste like no other, the peanut, extraordinary food.

You hop back in your car. If you're smart, you find plenty of towels, paper or otherwise. Peanut bag goes in your lap, warming you.

Scoop out a hot boiled peanut. Here's where the juice begins, for real. If you know hot boiled peanuts, you don't crack open the peanut and transfer the meat to your mouth.

No, put the peanut in your mouth. Bite down. The warm, salty water, rich with the taste of peanut rushes across your tongue.

Lap your tongue around the peanut and shell. Suck. This is what life tastes like, meaty, salty, and warm, rich.

Remove peanut and shell, extract peanut. Toss shell somewhere. Return peanut, bare, naked, to your mouth. Taste it fully as you chew, the earthy taste of the simple peanut. Packed with protein, served with panache in that cradling shell, the peanut is about as good as it gets in the simple goodness of life.

If you've found a peanut, a whole bag of hot boiled peanuts, you've found food, warmth, sustenance, an entire culture, and something to muse about as you journey on.

Not to mention peanut shells to throw at your brother or buddy. Doesn't matter. The essence is the peanut, rich, rolling in the currents of history, from the Delta to the dawn of a new techno-millenium.

Brother Peanut is going along for the ride. And the peanut man, he'll always be out there, somewhere. No matter how long or hard the trip, suddenly, you round a curve, and there he is, smiling over his pot.

I Found A Peanut