I find it both interesting and sad that when a famous pop culture icon dies, it's in the news for days but when a great spiritual leader dies, it's hardly mentioned by the news media.

I've been hearing a commercial lately for a product, I think it's called "Smooth Away", that is used to remove unwanted hair on the legs, etc.  It's described as being a pad covered with tiny crystals.  That sound like good old sandpaper to me.

Our Strange World

Britain's fear of Ladders:  One county in England recently changed the rules for the local fire department.  They now have to use long pole to test fire alarms that are too high to reach because using a step ladder might result in injuries.  In another district, raising a large flag was recently banned  because of the danger of using a step ladder when putting it up.

U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are sometimes getting so attached to their bomb-disposal robots that they give them names, take risks to save them when they get into battle areas and have funerals for them when they get destroyed.

A twenty-three year old guy in England went to jail for starting a fight with a neighbor, even though the seventy-two year old neighbor, a retired boxer, beat the crap out of him.

Just the homework, dummy:  a teenager in Wisconsin missed out on a class trip to Peru because his dog ate his passport.