I wrote yesterday about the Vietnamese Ministry of Health’s plans to ban riders with small chests from using motorcycles, to the amusement (and fury) of many Vietnamese. My friend Betty S. e-mailed me a link to this report, which claims that the Men From The Ministry are backtracking under the wave of scorn and derision… Continue reading Bureaucracy regains (a little) sanity – but not much!
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Bureaucracy gone mad!
I thought I’d heard every variety of bureaucratic stupidity imaginable . . . but I was wrong. Vietnam is considering banning small-chested drivers from its roads – a proposal that has provoked widespread disbelief in this nation of slight people. The Ministry of Health recently recommended that people whose chests measure fewer than 28 inches… Continue reading Bureaucracy gone mad!
Doofus Of The Day #89 and #90
There are two real Doofi for your amusement annoyance tonight. The first (collective) Doofus award goes to the entire team at Nike USA responsible for their athletic promotions. They screwed up mightily at the recent Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco. There were over 20,000 competitors in Sunday’s Nike Women’s Marathon in San Francisco. And… Continue reading Doofus Of The Day #89 and #90
An edifice beset by unedifying rivalry
The Church of the Holy Sepuchre in Jerusalem is purported to be the place where Jesus Christ was buried. The site of the tomb is covered by an edicule or shrine, erected beneath the dome of the basilica. The Church is divided between various Christian churches in terms of an arrangement, or firman, drawn up… Continue reading An edifice beset by unedifying rivalry
Another update about The High Road
Readers will be familiar with the shenanigans surrounding The High Road forum. I’ve written about the matter on three previous occasions. Matters are moving ahead. I had my scheduled meeting with the office of the local US Attorney, whose staff proved to be most interested in the matter. Things are progressing in that area, and… Continue reading Another update about The High Road
Doofus Of The Day #85
A collective Doofus award (and an upthrust finger, plus sundry rude remarks) to the entire staff of the motor vehicle licensing department responsible for hounding Mrs. Julie Strange of Salkeld, UK. Congratulations, too, to Mrs. Strange for standing up to them as she did! When Julie Strange received a letter from the DVLA addressed to… Continue reading Doofus Of The Day #85
Doofus Of The Day #81
Our Doofus today is a Swedish doctor, who clearly didn’t listen during Anatomy 101. A Swedish woman was supposed to have her appendix removed, but when the operation was completed she discovered surgeons had instead removed one of her ovaries and a Fallopian tube. It was back in October 2007 when the woman from Ångermanland… Continue reading Doofus Of The Day #81
The financial crisis and the politicians
In all the fuss and bother over the ‘credit squeeze’ and the ‘bailout package’, the US news media have mostly failed to point out that the same politicians who got us into this mess are the ones currently trying to find a solution. I’m not confident of their chances of success. Most US news media… Continue reading The financial crisis and the politicians
Another update on The High Road
Readers are doubtless familiar with my first and second posts on the situation at The High Road (THR) forum. Briefly, the tech support administrator, Mr. Derek Zeanah, has misappropriated the domain name; locked all others except himself and his cronies out of high-level access to the board; and is insisting he shares ownership of the… Continue reading Another update on The High Road
And they call this “fashion”???
I’m stunned by a collection of photographs of the latest Paris (alleged) “fashions”. Lady readers, please take a look at these sample pictures and tell me whether you’d wear this crap – or allow anyone you cared about to wear it, for that matter! More pictures here, for those interested. I can’t for the life… Continue reading And they call this “fashion”???