Thursday, April 4, 2013

There should be red faces at the Pentagon...

This is really unbelievable: the Pentagon’s official YouTube channel mistaking an African woman leader for Singapore's Prime Minister!



http://news.insing.com/tabloid/pentagon-video-mistakes-pm-lee-for-african-woman/id-af713f00

(You gotta see the video in the link above.)

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I learnt about the dragonfly's amazing prowess from this New York Times story in ST (April 3):



It got me thinking. Dragonflies are plentiful in Singapore (I recently found lots of them in the Labrador Park area). So, why -- given the dragonfly's "punching above its weight" qualities and hardy,survivalist traits -- wasn't it chosen as our national symbol? Instead, we are stuck with this mythical half-this-half-that frankenmonster:



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