One bird flew over the cuckoos nest

Lots of stuff in the press about “bird flu” this and “bird flu” that. And you hear lots of numbers thrown around. For example in this CNN.com report where China says it is a “serious epidemic”. They have had 20 outbreaks in the last month alone. Now I love this bit: The latest cases resulted […]

Again — I got’s nuthin

I could write about how we still don’t have gas (which of course means no hot water, no cooking, no washing of clothes or dishes, etc blah blah) but that is an incredibly dull story that deals with the fact that we have allowed essential services to be handled by huge corporations that span several […]

I’m a winner!

Oh this is great, I’ll never have to worry about money again. I just got this e-mail: Compliments Before I introduce myself, I wish to inform you that this letter is not a hoax mail and I urge you to treat it serious. We want to transfer to an oversea account ($16,700.000.00 USD) Sixteen Million […]