[Tax-chick]

Earlier, costumed puppeteers danced to drumbeats in a dramatic interpretation of the Pablo Picasso painting, "Guernica," which depicts the Spanish Civil War.

So that's what those people with the birds on sticks were doing! (A prize for the best explanation of what "Guernica" has to do with this situation ...) I thought they just wanted to get another use out of their Chinese New Year outfits.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

One of the things I have always thought amusing about the communist outrage over the death and destruction in Guernica is the fact that much of it was caused by secondary explosions from the huge munitions depot the communists had placed in the town.

Michael Frazier