Still Overwhelmed

Not effectively able to deal with the jumble of bads news coming down the pike. Sort it out. And in turn output some sort of post relating to it. Mostly blinded by anger. And well it really does me no good. To be consumed by it. Devoured even. So, rather than turning red, pounding the keyboard, and breathing flames. We'll just take a timeout.

A little humour, some pathos ..... (in no particular order)

Man's Message-In-A-Bottle Found After His Death

(AP) ANTIGO, Wis. Years after casting a bottled-up note into a lake for a class project and just one year after his death, a man's childhood message has been found and returned to his mother.


Man with 10-year erection awarded $400,000

Malfunctioning penile implant is painful and can't be removed

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A former handyman has won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a penile implant that gave him a 10-year erection. Charles "Chick" Lennon, 68, received the steel and plastic implant in 1996, about two years before Viagra went on the market. The Dura-II is designed to allow impotent men to position the penis upward for sex, then lower it.

But Lennon could not position his penis downward. He said he could no longer hug people, ride a bike, swim or wear bathing trunks because of the pain and embarrassment. He has become a recluse and is uncomfortable being around his grandchildren, his lawyer said.


Man on Mini-Motorcycle Leads Cops on Chase


Man robbed of designer pants

MILWAUKEE, June 27 (UPI) -- Two armed robbers must have really liked the pants an 18-year-old Milwaukee police aide was wearing last week: they took his designer trousers at gunpoint. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel says the teenager was talking with a friend on the street early Saturday morning when two men pulled up in a sedan and demanded his pants.


That's Fugged Up/Axiom of the Obvious

Mammograms 'can increase breast cancer risk'

Mammograms may increase the risk of breast cancer in women with a genetic predisposition to the disease, researchers revealed today. A study of 1,600 women with BRCA 1 and 2 mutations, defective genes linked to breast cancer, found they were 54 per cent more likely to suffer the disease if they had ever had a chest X-ray.


From Wiki

Mulitple Choice: Whose name is missing from this list?

List of people convicted of treason

United States

* John Brown
* Iva Toguri D'Aquino, who is frequently identified with "Tokyo Rose"
* Governor Thomas Dorr 1844, convicted of treason against the state of Rhode Island; see Dorr Rebellion
* Mildred Gillars
* Hans Max Haupt, convicted of treason and sentenced to life in prison for aiding his son who was a spy for Germany during the Second World War
* Tomoya Kawakita, sentenced to death for treason, but eventually deported to Japan

A) Bill Keller
B) Bill Keller
C) Bill Keller
or D) Bill Keller


How I Love Islam, Let Me Count the Ways .....

'European Muslims Resort to Virginity Ploys'

SAINT-DENIS, France - Hymen repair, fake virginity certificates and other deceptions, said to be commonplace in some Muslim countries, are practiced in France and elsewhere in Europe, where Muslim girls still live under rigid codes of family honor.

Such ploys have saved many a young woman from scorn and worse. The procedures are legal but shrouded in silence .... Wrobel is one of an unknown number of gynecologists in France who are willing to repair hymens .....