from HARPER'S WEEKLY, November 13, 2007: new frontiers in diplomacy: > At an Ibero-American summit in Chile, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called > Spain's former prime minister a fascist, adding, "fascists are not human. A > snake is more human." "Why don't you shut up?" asked the king of Spain. <
[by the way, which former prime minister was that? was he (or she) _literally_ a fascist?] silly laws Dept.: >Voters in Great Britain decided that their most ridiculous law was one that makes it illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament.< innovations: >Eight-year-old twins from Ohio were nationally recognized for inventing wedgie-proof underpants< just strange: >doctors performed a 40-hour operation to remove four limbs from an eight-limbed Indian girl, who is believed by some to be an incarnation of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi. < -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante.
