WASHINGTON POST REPORTS: In modern times it would be called a chimera, a furry, fish-eating swimmer and burrower a bit bigger than a tree squirrel, with an otterlike body, teeth like a seal, webbed hind feet like a platypus and a flat tail just like a beaver.
But it lived — and died — about 164 million years ago in a swampy Jurassic lake bed northeast of Beijing in what is now the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China. Its multinational team of discoverers called the fossil Castorocauda lutrasimilis — “beaver-tailed sort-of otter.”
Thats about the best thing I heard on Thursday, a day of chores & horse (my grandfather from Amherst, Mass. pronounced it “Hoss”) coughing & at night watching the Olympic finals in woman’s figure skating, almost all 3 hours of it, despite the fact that I knew the winners and losers already by the afternoon. The Japanese skater who won gold, Akira I believe her name was, probably deserved it, and now the Japanese have gold-fever.
Speaking of heavy gold, the Olympic Russian sweatpants with the word for RUSSIA in Russian down one leg costs almost four hundred and fifty American dollars as of this entry. For Russian sweatpants. As a country I think this kind of exchange rate may be tied to our debt, and it causes me grave concern, this sweatpant inflation. Of course, not all sweatpant inflations are bad…
Based on some research I have done pro bono late into the nights for the past years on foreign policy and the Middle East, I am ready to come out against violence in the Middle East & hip hop in general. Its gotten out of control, where East & West Coast styles are bling blinging on MTV one day, the next day copycatted with real blood in Iraq and relayed back through CNN.com & Fox News. Take the recent Hyphy parade that shot rockets at the Golden Dome this week.
The man who lived across the street from the Mosque of the Golden Dome gave his account of what happened: “…about seven cars full of men wearing black, the signature Mahdi dress, fire machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades at the dome…”
Now compare that to E-40 discussing Hyphy & the San Fran Krump with Allhiphop.com:
E-40: The energy is the same but the movement is different. With Hyphy, we got the invisible driving our cars, we got the stunna shades, dreadlocks, we got the scrappers, we got the Hyphy train.
AllHipHop.com: What’s the Hyphy train? 
E-40: Just imagine, after the club closes, a whole bunch of cars campaigning like the president. Or, like a parade with doors open, cats dancing on the hood, on the doors, music blasting it’s just a mobile party.
AllHipHop.com: How do you keep control of the cars if people aren’t in it?
E-40: We walking next to it, it’s not like they’re driving fast we just driving slow like it’s a Fourth of July float, ya dig? Then we got the side-show, where cats showcase their toys [cars] and their skills doing the donuts and figure eights in the middle of traffic at the intersections and things.
AllHipHop.com: I’m sure the police cant be happy about that…
E-40: Actually, the majority of the time, it’s a controlled parade. They do give out tickets, but it’s usually controlled. Hyphy alone, is an energy. It’s the cousin of Crunk but more up-tempo.”
It seems to me as if the Iraqi’s took the Hyphy ideal of a walking parade and turned into a living nightmare of rockets explosions death & the destruction of the Golden Dome itself. It sure is unfortunate how events can play out in parallel universes… a nightcap of blissed out Hyphy stepping where no one gets domed in the Bayside is the flipside of the hyper Hyphy assault that domes the Golden Dome in Iraq.