monday miata

...just found out about a place called "Arab" in Alabama. i am besides myself in wonder! how is it pronounced "Ay - rab" or "Ar-ab"? ... this even beats "Humble, Texas".
in fact, now that i think of it - there is a place called "Palestine, Texas"! i ask you - if this is not inclusionism and diversity in the brotherhood of man - what is? :-) ;-)


... US Senate majority leader Bill Frist is hopeful that a full vote in the upper house would clear a comprehensive immigration reform bill that includes provisions for hefty increases in the work visas mainly availed by Indian IT professionals - oh those smart Asians taking on the world! :-)

...once or twice a month, 70-year-old Dr. Miriam McCrear, who has come out of retirement, takes a 45-minute flight from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to perform abortions at the last clinic in the state willing to offer the procedure. "I want every child that's born, to be born into a family that wants a child.” pro-freedom, one might say?

... a US high school marching band has been banned from taking part in a London festival - because it's too dangerous. "What happens if kids get on a train that blows up? We don't have trains blowing up in America," said Herb Wiseman, high school consultant. Bob Bone, the parade's executive director, said: "Here is an educator that seems to delight in the knowledge that he is ignorant of the facts. London is not a city under siege." what in the world is a high school consultant?

... I am reading "the art of scientific innovation - cases of classical creativity" ... just exercising my freedom

... Russian police officers are being given etiquette lessons following complaints about their rude behaviour. Course teacher Smoren Dubroev said, "I will also teach the them about poetry, literature, art, music and dance to make them more cultured and will show them how important good manners are at the dinner table." how sweet - perhaps i should lend them my book on "cases of classical creativity"?!

... a Dutch inventor has developed a digital gravestone with an LCD display showing pictures and films. The tombstone has an infrared sense which activates the display when anybody stands in front of the grave. the body may perish but the ego never dies!

.... David Beckham has admitted that he suffers from obsessive compulsive disorder. Mrs Beckham, recently told one interviewer: "He's got that obsessive compulsive thing where everything has to match. If you open our fridge, it's all co-ordinated down either side. We've got three fridges - food in one, salad in another and drinks in the third. In the drinks one, everything is symmetrical. If there's three cans, he'll throw one away because it has to be an even number." suggested solution from a doctor with no medical qualifications whatsoever: use just one fridge