Writes Vince Stankay of Florida in response to news of increased penalties for drunk drivers in Slovakia:

Usually when the Olympics come to town there’s a big clean-up, during which junkies with little muscles get kicked out to make way for junkies with big muscles. That’s what happened in Barcelona in 92, but from this op-ed piece by Costas Iordanidis in Kathimerini it sounds like the Greek government is not having it [...]

A new study, Fish intake during pregnancy in relation to offspring’s early cognitive development, shows that
women who ate fish regularly during pregnancy had children with better language and communication skills by the age of 18 months.
Interesting, then, that fishermen seem to be such silent ghits:

Life really is much better now that many Christians and some Muslims realise that chopping up and burning gays and lesbians does not generate good PR. Contemporary hate money goes on marketing campaigns based - quelle surprise! - on mumbo-jumbo:

The cultural naivety of Irish political atavism is evident in this placard. NO RED CARPET FOR KILLER BUSH, it says. Smart opponents would have tried to change the meaning of the red from whatever it originally was to reflect the blood which they would have us believe Bush is spilling needlessly.