Category Archive: 2012

The open-discharge toilets used by 30 million train passengers every day in India have always generated a big stink, but now scientists are warning that the issue is also flush with “serious safety implications.”  The discharge causes widespread corrosion of the rails and maintenance workers often refuse to service the undercarriage of the trains.”

The federal government announced the postponement of their plan to stop circulating pennies last October.  The new target is now on Feb. 4, 2013.

The Pope’s butler was sentenced to 18 months of house arrest in the Vatican after being convicted of leaking information pertaining to allegations of corruption and financial misdeeds within the Vatican.  No telling how much has changed since the days of the inquisition since all we know from the secretive trial is that the butler confessed and he is now very sorry.

Unfortunately da money still owns Congress.  Although all but 1% of da money is still expected to fall over a fickle cliff (that everyone else just calls partisan politics) perhaps now the slope, and fall, will not be so pronounced.

Conservatives find themselves under attack as the open-ended terms of their non-competitive contract for 65 still undelivered F-35 stealth fighters continues to deliver escalating sticker shock (and awe) with an estimated cost that seems to be climbing faster than the jet will.

Extreme skydiver Felix Baumgartner became the first person to break the speed of sound without an aircraft while setting five Guinness World records during his 24 mile stratospheric freefall.

Fortunately Canada still has some cents enough to refuse to participate in a bailout package for the still unrepennytant European bankers, governments and people.

It’s James Bondage meets Shades of Grey when the Head of the CIA, the Commander of the International Security Assistance Force and a veteran FBI agent are caught in the fallout when their mistresses blow up in the mother of all hissy fits.  The rest of the country is terrified (but not surprised) to discover that the security of their country is in the hands of some pretty insecure operators.

In a year that opened with anything but a Kodak moment, and despite surviving the latest predicted apocalypse (and a thousand Hollywood spinoffs) we learn that everyone’s heads are in varying shades of a dark place.  The girls have invested all of their time and money in the Shades of Grey novel while their men were preoccupied with the second coming of the Black Ops video game.