Crazy news

Ever notice how the news is just really weird sometimes? Sure, it's usually bad, but sometimes it's just...wow!!

For example...today I read that (and this is a direct quote from the article on the WMUR webpage...) "Prince Philip has set a record for the longest-serving consort of a British monarch." Longest-serving consort?? Consort?! Seriously now, is it just me or does that make Prince Philip sound like a whore? Is saying "Queen Elizabeth's husband, Philip" so horrible or difficult?

And speaking of those crazy royals...Her Majesty's oldest grandson (Princess Anne's son) got married this weekend to some Canadian chick. Girlie apparently converted from Roman Catholicism to Anglicanism so that her hunny wouldn't have to renounce his opportunity to claim the throne someday. I can see converting if you have taken a spiritual journey and realize you believe something different than what you thought you believed...but to do it so he can have an opportunity to be King? Come on! The guy is 11th in line for the throne!!!! WHAT are the odds that the right 9 people are all going to drop dead BEFORE Queen Elizabeth does???

A little something to possibly consider when making travel plans: according to the BBC website, a 2 year survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international standards are too big for most Indian men. Take that information and do with it what you must.

What else? Oh! I guess there's a lake in central Massachusetts...a lake with a 45-letter name. Yes, I said 45 letters. It's in Webster, Mass. And just so you get the full effect, I'm going to put the name on its own line

Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg.

Noooooo....no Native American influence there! ;) Apparently some folks are uppity because some signs have misspellings in them. I get that things should be spelled correctly but who is gonna notice if it's an H and not an N when they're doing 65 mph down the freakin' highway?! (As a side note: a local legend claimed it roughly translated to "I'll fish my side. You fish your side. No one fishes the middle." This legend was apparently debunked, but I like it, so I'm going with it. I'm a sucker for a good legend. Can't help it.)

You gotta know I'm gonna throw in something that shows us the true stupidity of some people, right? Well, some moron in Colorado (?) just got 4 years probation for telling an off-duty pilot that he had five pounds of explosives that security had missed. He didn't have anything, but still...what kind of friggin' idiot says that in a post 9/11 world?! Where has this guy been since 2001? I'm sorry, I really think people this stupid need to be removed from the gene pool - one way or another.

And on a final, more serious note...that poor little girl in California...Sandra Cantu. What an awful story. If you've been following the story, her Sunday School teacher has been charged with killing and raping her. (And before I go on, obviously, she's innocent until proven guilty.) I guess the police department in Tracy, CA is getting dozens of calls a day saying that there's "no way" she did that...or that she wasn't acting alone because "no mother would do that to a child" or something like that. OK...I read enough true crime to know that sure, statistically speaking the odds are against it. Only 1% of forcible rapes are committed by women. And usually with something like this, there's a domineering freak of a boyfriend that some weak woman is trying to please. So no, it doesn't seem possible. But remember 40 years ago, no one would have thought it possible that a group of people would walk into a house full of complete strangers and kill everyone there. And yet...it happened...

So remember, my friends...the world is full of crazies. Some are amusing. Some are dangerous. Some are so stupid, it's scary.