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* Thank you for Mayor Bloomberg for being a voice of reason on Park 51 when it would be so much easier to stay silent.

* A drunken white guy nearly killed a taxi driver he perceived as Muslim in a brutal unprovoked attack: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/08/25/taxi-driver-attacked-after-passenger-asked-if-he-was-muslim/

* I fear for the safety of all the guys running those little falafel carts in lower Manhattan, and anyone brown working the World trade center construction site.

* Things keep getting worse in Pakistan, though it's still not much in the news. Here's a way to help: http://community.livejournal.com/help_pakistan/

* RM found, Brothers fighting for the right to make and sell caskets: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703846604575448083489852328.html

* I am randomly craving lemon meringue pie.

* ******** A: The 100-Name Facebook Hit List Terrifying a Colombian Town: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/08/24/colombia.facebook.killings/index.html

People are dying.