Tuesday, December 26, 2006

ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS... As announced by police and other authorities Christmas Day was disturbed by numerous terror attacks; government buildings were blown up, trains derailed, planes went down, fortunately an attempt to steal the Crown Jewels was thwarted. On Boxing Day the crowds plundered the shops and hunted for... bargains; some preferred hunting the traditional fox despite the ban. And I hear the sawing and thumping at my neighbour's this morning, who is probably trying to defraud the gas or water company this time. And then there is the unimportant news, of course. You probably haven't heard anything about that in your local paper: Independent: "Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth. The obliteration of Lohachara island, in India's part of the Sundarbans where the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers empty into the Bay of Bengal, marks the moment when one of the most apocalyptic predictions of environmentalists and climate scientists has started coming true." LATimes: "Supplies of highly potent Afghan heroin in the United States are growing so fast that the pure white powder is rapidly overtaking lower-quality Mexican heroin, prompting fears of increased addiction and overdoses." 11:09:42 AM

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