The death of David Carradine has been ruled as accidental. The authorities said that there were no signs of foul play.

I guess the people of Thailand regularly have their hands bound and then hang themselves with a rope tied around their neck and their genitals.

“No signs of foul play” come on! Come to think of it, that is Thailand’s response to every high profile death.

Since the Japanese have long believed that ghosts hang out in bathrooms, an enterprising writer has started printing ghost stories on toilet paper. The idea is that you can read a story while you wait for your movement.

While the concept is novel, I would think it to be counter productive. It might work if you lived by yourself. But knowing that the next chapter may go missing before you get to read it, might encourage longer stays.

But then again, some people have too much time on their hands.

Health officials in Africa have discovered a new and extremely deadly virus which has killed 4 of the 5 people who have contracted it. Similar to Ebola, this new virus is only transmitted by blood. And, unlike AIDS which lingers undetected for a long period of time, this virus kills within hours. So, a person could die before they had to chance to spread it to others.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t have as big a following as the swine flu so I doubt that it will amount to much.

Poor Mel Gibson. He has gotten himself into quite a dilemma. He is still married to his wife and yet he has a pregnant girlfriend.

If he annuls his present marriage since divorce is not recognized by the Catholic church, he is declaring that he was never really married to his present wife. This, of course, would make his present children “bastards”. On the other hand, if he doesn’t married his girlfriend, her child will be a “bastard”. Either way you look at it, it is a loose loose situation for Mel.

For many many years, I have been letting my hair grow and have always kept it back in a pony tail.  The idea was to donate the hair once it was long enough.

Well, that day arrived last weekend.  I had about 18 inches lopped off leaving about a 4 inch ponytail.

The interesting part was when I returned back to work the following Monday.  No one noticed, not even the people who had been asking me when I was going to get it cut!

I guess it is because I still wear it in a ponytail.

The spammers have returned! About 6 months ago, I quit receiving spam which I found to be quite curious. Now, Kir, Neo, Bill, Heel, Diesel and all of the old regulars are back. So, now my blog has gone from 5 spams a day back up to 200. Fortunately, the spam goes into a separate file for my review so it is easy to deal with.

Supposedly, I have a spam filter which will automatically delete the spam but it must not be working anymore. Oh well, at least I can manually delete the spam in bulk.

Well, another teacher got caught having sex with a student.  She was a 27 year old Social Studies teacher and he was a 15 year old student.  Their tryst only lasted for a month and now she is going to  jail so I hope it was worth it.

Where were these teachers when I was in school?

Well, Father Cutie is back in the news again.  He has announced that he is leaving the Roman Catholic church and moving to the Episcopalian church instead.

The Episcopalian church is very similar in beliefs to the Roman Catholic church except that they allow their priest to marry.  So, it stands to reason that the good father would change churches.

Are wedding bells soon to follow?

No, literally.  Another 20 something female school teacher has been arrested for having sex with a student.  In this particular case, it was an 8th grade boy who happened to be 15 years old.  What is more, the boys mother approved of the relationship and allowed them to sleep together at her apartment.

I suspect that this sort of thing has been going on for many many years but in the past, they were more discrete.

Some states have recently prohibited people from smiling for their drivers license photos.  Apparently, a smile interferes with their facial recognition programs.  Therefore, they want you to not smile.

Now, that should be too hard to comply with.  After all, waiting in a crowded office for hours just to get you drivers license renewed would take the smile out of anyone.

Go figure.