Thursday, August 24, 2006

And the pale horse is "death," not "dearth."

See this, appended to Slate.com's story about hip hop in the Middle East:

"Correction, August 18, 2006: This article originally misidentified the meaning of the word "dam" in Hebrew and Arabic. It means blood, not fire."

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