We’re talking one in fifty polar bears!! From the article – “The arctic is now a chemical sink.” Scary how chemicals get concentrated as you go up the food chain. I’ve given up my addiction to having a spicy ahi donburi (yummy raw tuna over sushi rice) almost every day for lunch, out of concern…
Brown Sugar Junkies in Iran
Be sure to follow this link so that you can watch the video and see the photo-essay. This is an epic sort of story. cd Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone From Yahoo! News A maverick doctor combines needle exchange and methadone to fight Iran’s serious heroin problem. The Islamic government supports him — so…
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UDown ?!
While I was wandering around this evening between martinis, I passed the U-Down store a few blocks from my house. To give a little bit of backgorund, if you go anywhere on this fukn island of Oahu, you see this U down symbol…. Anyway…life has been complicated for a while and for whatever reason, tonight…
GLUE SNIFF MONKEYS
Gangs are a problem everywhere….. cd GLUE SNIFF MONKEYS A CITY police force is struggling to contain a marauding band of terrifying, glue-sniffing “gangster monkeys”. Wild macaques have been stealing bags of glue from addicts, getting high and launching attacks in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The crazed beasts have been biting people and stealing laundry. Deputy…
Cash award for 50-year jail error
By far the saddest line in this story is, “Even his family had forgotten about him.” An Indian man who spent more than 50 years in jail without trial has been awarded 300,000 rupees ($6,800; £3,800) compensation by the Supreme Court. The court also awarded 77-year-old Machang Lalung 1,000 rupees a month. Mr Lalung was…
Buddhist master to be mummified
Hmmm, doesn’t seem like a very Buddhist thing to do. But I am learning that there are all sorts of Buddhists… Buddhist monks in the northern Indian state of Himachal Pradesh have decided to preserve the body of their master so he can be worshipped forever. Disciples of Yogi Amtrin, who died on 1 July…
Mysterious Volcano Movements
Watch out folks…something seems to be stirring under the big island of Hawaii…. Slump in volcano mystifies scientists HILO » The summit of Kilauea volcano slumped yesterday. Nobody knows why. The activity, similar to a balloon slowly losing air, was first noted at 5:45 a.m. By 4:20 p.m. the process, called deflation, had stopped after…
Report: Angelina Jolie Expecting Baby
Hmmm….and here I thought they were just friends…cd LOS ANGELES – Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, according to a report on the People magazine Web site. “Yes, I’m pregnant,” the magazine quoted Jolie as telling charity aid worker Monday in the Dominican Republic, where she is filming “The Good…
Cy the dead kitten
Okay, this is just too dusturbing not to post. Poor thing. Cy, short for Cyclopes, a kitten born with only one eye and no nose, is shown in this photo provided by its owner in Redmond, Oregon, on Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2005. The kitten, a ragdoll breed, which died after living for one day, was…