squirm

too much junkie business

last night the bundestag voted to reclassify diamorphine as a medicine and legalize its use as a maintenance treatment, replacing that nasty ole methadone. to qualify, users must be over 23, been on the nod for at least five years, and failed treatment twice - that shouldn't be too difficult!

also, last week i happened across the fixpunkt automat on the corner of bernauer strasse and gesundbrunnen. get everything you need for a good time for only €1.50! well, not exactly. that only covers the rubbers and works. you'll still have to figure out how to pay for the sex and the dope. hmm, if only one could be used to pay for the other...hey, wait a gosh darn minute... what if... eureka!

switzerland's warm welcome

lately i've been watching

a few histories of the House of Tudor and the English Reformation - which proved handy when i came across this,,, 

missed only two and i don't even live there anymore

amurkans can take this civics literacy quiz to test their knowledge of their history and gummint.

Now that the change has come

i guess the fairies won't be needing their boots anymore....

speaking of simon

here is his take on the legacy of the fast disappearing 43rd president of the united states.

"it hasn't really been all George Bush's fault, the stupendous American fiasco. He came to power armed with an ideology that was about to crash and burn; that was, years before the present tumult, already fatally disconnected from historical reality. It was on his watch that American government needed reinventing. It was responsible government that was needed in Iraq and Afghanistan; government that was desperately needed in New Orleans after Katrina, while all George Bush could manage was a fly-by. It is government that this most anti-governmental of all American administrations is learning that is needed now to save the United States from a second Depression"

indeed, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

who says there are problems

with healthcare in america?

the phrase

"self cleaning oven" comes to mind...

who can resist this little gem...

thanks to el presidente and his junta

it's not just the value of the greenback that has dropped into the muck