News

I wasn't called to work today which was surprising. With not a lot to do I was going through a bunch of news stories as I often do and I thought I'd share a few of the ones that really stood out in my mind for some reason.

This is just...wow. I do think many 'artists' are simply trying to push things to get attention and not actually create art. Maybe I'll change my mind in the future, but that's how I see things at the moment.

I know I'm in the minority on this one and I may annoy more than a few, but I'm happy to see this happen. Women should not be given so much power and the man never having any say in such things considering how the long term consequences can be very harsh on the man depending on how it all plays out under present laws. Until something changes, men need to have the same choice in such circumstances as is now shown in existing laws.

And how do charges against Foster Parents happen in cases like this? Who the hell would believe it unless good evidence aside from a child's testimony is had? Yeesh. Any wonder why people don't like going into the Foster Parent's program?

Weird Questions

Weird News of the Day
LONDON (Reuters) - London commuters, long used to train operators blaming delays on everything from leaves on the line to "slippery" rain, thought they had heard it all -- until a vasectomy stopped services. Thousands of commuters were held up when a trainee driver on the London Underground fell out of his cab after fainting over fellow workers' descriptions of the vasectomy operation a colleague had undergone, British newspapers reported Tuesday. The trainee, who was taken to a hospital with head and chest injuries, had unsuccessfully asked his fellow workers to stop talking about the vasectomy, the Daily Express said. "The details were just too graphic and evidently too much for the young trainee to take," the newspaper quoted a London Underground source as saying. The incident occurred last Thursday.

Question of the Day
Q: America isn't where the BUFFALO roam?

Nope. Nowhere in the America did buffalo roam. Those big furry things the Natives hunted for food? Those weren't buffalo! Those were bison!

It's true! Ask any scientist. What are known as buffalo roamed in Africa and Asia, but not North America. Somewhere along the way, people began calling the North American animals buffalo, and the name stayed. And then there is a song that begins, "O Give Me a Home, Where the Buffalo Roam." Well, they didn't roam in North America.

The correct term for those giant, gentle animals is bison, a critter different in many ways form a buffalo. Only a few of them are around nowadays, mainly because they were killed for sport until about a hundred years ago. You can still see them in some Western states, like Montana, and at some zoos. But don't call them buffalo! They are correctly known as bison.