Well, budget carrier Ryanair is considering charging passengers to use the airliner’s lavatory on flights of under an hour. It’d be one euro or one pound, so a buck and a half or so as of this writing. I love flying in an airplane, but I can’t stand air travel. I’ve written about that before. … Read more
I haven’t had much to say about the recent comments of Congressman Hank Johnson (D-GA), on his concern that moving 8,000 Marines and their families to Guam would create an imminent danger of it tipping over. He’s since tried to undo the damage by saying he was speaking metaphorically. Indeed, I dismissed the initial reports … Read more
A few weeks ago, my sister-in-law Raetta rescued two baby bushy-tailed rats squirrels from a felled tree. I think I remember she said they’re about seven weeks old now. She’s started weaning them from the bottle—they ate their first nuts yesterday—and expects to release them in another month or so. Honestly, I’d have left them … Read more