From Websense: The site you submitted has been reviewed and the categorization has been changed to Message Boards and Clubs. This update should be available in the next publication of the database. How they could “review” a site written by a single person and conclude it a “message board” or “club” I have no idea, but so long as it gets me unblocked, I’m willing to live with it for

From the AP: A strain of polio that’s hit parts of Africa and the Middle East appears almost identical to one that has reached Indonesia, raising the prospect that a migrant worker may have brought it back to the world’s most populous Muslim nation, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. An 18-month-old girl in the West Java village of Girijaya was diagnosed with polio on April 21, becoming the first

From the BBC: Iraq’s parliament has sworn in the first Iraqi government since elections were held in January. Seven posts in Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari’s cabinet—including the defence and oil ministries – remain unfilled amid partisan haggling. The ethnic make-up of the cabinet—the first democratically elected government in more than 50 years—is considered to be crucial to building legitimacy. Well, it’s already legitimate, but I suppose we can forgive the

So, that was interesting.  Now what? 

3 1 7 4 8 2 5 6 9 ***** update:  a number of you have asked me how the number 1 could finish behind the number 3.  Simple:  3 is a magic number; and 1—while certainly a very formidable challenger—lacks that whole “it takes three legs to make a tripod or to make a table stand” thing that makes 3 so magical.  As for 9, well, I hope one

________________________________ Part I. Dalton:  “Pain don’t hurt.” Marquis de Sade:  “Amen, brother.” ________________________________ Part II Dalton:  “Take the biggest guy in the world, shatter his knee and he’ll drop like a stone.” Marquis de Sade:  “You read my mind, man.  Really. It’s uncanny!”*

Mmmmm.  That is one fine-looking pussy… **** update:  That’s right.  You like it when I touch you like that, don’t you, Mr Snickers…?

From the BBC: A survivor of Adolf Hitler’s wartime bunker in Berlin has been tracked down, a German newspaper claims. The Berliner Zeitung relates 93-year-old Erna Flegel’s account of the last days of World War II, under the headline “I was Hitler’s nurse”. Mrs Flegel said she stayed in the bunker after Hitler killed himself and was there when Soviet troops arrived […] From January 1943 until the end of

Right.  And I once planned to make a rocket-powered jet pack out of a couple of fire extinguishers, some tinfoil, a roll of duct tape, and my father’s suit belt.  But that didn’t work, either.