Today's pizza, a pizza I like to call the "I have a lot of leftover basil so I should make pesto pizza pizza," has green peppers, tofu, olives, mozzarella, tomato sauce, mushrooms, Parmesan and, of course, pesto. Home made pesto, by the way. (Yes, I'm bragging about my ability to make pesto.) Now, I have to go eat...
Thirty five years ago the democratically elected government of Chile was overthrown by a U.S. backed coup led by Augusto Pinochet. President Salvador Allende died in the coup, and seventeen years of military dictatorship and political repression followed, with at least three thousand people murdered or disappeared and many more imprisoned and tortured.
This could be the last blog post I ever write. Hell, this could be one of the last things I ever do. For in a short while, if you don't already know, the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is going to turn on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). It has been called the world's largest science experiment and is designed to create the conditions immediately after the big bang, in order to gain a better understanding of our universe. And while CERN asserts that it is perfectly safe, there are those who believe that turning on the LHC could result in any number of doomsday scenarios, my favourite being the creation of a black hole that could swallow up the earth. And while I would take much amusement from the fact that the earth had been swallowed up by a black hole of our own creation were I still around to do so, and I believe that if we are stupid enough to turn on a machine that is capable of destroying the planet on which we reside then we probably deserve it (isn't there some kind of precautionary principle in science?) my fervent hope is that the naysayers are wrong and that I'm still here tomorrow. Check back...if you can.
So good. Eat it. Unless you hate food. Or yourself.
