Stupid vice-president! / I want to read FINAL EXITS!

All I have to say after watching this episode of 24 is that the vice-president is arrogant and not a very nice species of human being! (although Corey assures me that the vice-president in reality is also these things since he shoots his friends and is a hypocrite around telling people to go away) This vice-president is about to defy the president's direct orders... just because he woke up from his coma (from an assassination attempt) and issues him an order to NOT go ahead with a nuclear strike DOES NOT MEAN that his judgment is clouded, thanks! The ambassador's country didn't even set off the bomb that injured the president in the first place - "a warning," indeed! At least Bill apologized to Nadia when she was found innocent because of a remote device - then Milo got what he wanted from her, which was kissing. That was great, heh. The autistic character Brady was cute and reminded me of little Sean, but I don't know about using those people as terrorist bait! They have Gredenko now - yay for tranquilizer darts!


Today's Instant Yet Truly Morbid Fact!

A pipe bomb exploded and instantly killed a Brazil man who may have intended to use the device to stun fish. The body of Paul Lynch, 31, was found early Saturday by friends who had been searching for him since the prior evening. "A shrapnel piece from the bomb ... passed through Lynch's heart, killing him instantly," Clay County Coroner Rick Swearingen said. Lynch had been fishing alone in Birch Creek near Clay City, about 60 miles southwest of Indianapolis, and had two of the homemade bombs with him. Bomb technicians from the Indiana State Police Bomb Squad defused the remaining pipe bomb, which was made from a steel pipe. The pipe bomb may have been intended to be used to stun fish in the creek.

Culled from: The Indy Channel
Generously submitted by: Bruce T.

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One small death for man; one giant leap for fishkind!

Yes, I am rising from the sickbed to send the newsletter again today. I went to a doc-in-a-box this morning, and he gave me medication for my allergies, which of course has done little good... so I look forward to another miserable restless couple of nights before I can get in to see a specialist. Oh, suffering - thy name is spring!

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Wretched Recommendations!

Katchaya has a non-fiction recommendation that looks like an excellent read!

Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die by Michael Largo

Binkyboodlehead agrees:

"So glad to see you have added Final Exits: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die. I grabbed it tonight after seeing a lady pick it up and cross it off her husband's Christmas wishlist. I flipped through it and was amazed! Who knew there were so many bizarre ways to die? This is an extensive A-Z list of dying and death. Pages and pages of gore ... I love it!!"

Here's the Amazon.Com description:

"We're all going to die - it's in the contract - but how will it happen? Today, although we live longer, people are killed by everything: bad words, bloodletting, flying cows, frozen toilets, hiccups, laughing, and spontaneous combustion are some of the unexpected causes. According to death certificates, in 1700, there were less than one hundred causes of death. Now there are more than three thousand. In the eye-opening and addictive Final Exits, causes of death - bizarre or common - are alphabetically arranged and include actual accounts of people, both famous and ordinary, who died in their own particular way.

"Thoroughly researched, with uncanny historical detail covering burial customs, famous last words, and more than four hundred medical and historical illustrations from throughout the ages, Final Exits is more than just a trivia book. It is a portrait in words and numbers of human fate."


Dude, I would TOTALLY read that book! :D