Hurricane Ivan As Frances batters Florida, Hurricane Ivan looks to be heading to Florida too. It formed near where Frances did, and is so far following about the same track. PS CNN just showed a video of, you guessed it, a…

Enjoy the lull Today and tomorrow, the news will be slow, and then, come Tuesday, the presidential campaigns will start ragin’ full on and we all shall be splattered with endless mud and slime until election day.

I doubt it Polls suggest a double-digit Bush lead With little more than eight weeks remaining to Election Day, a Newsweek survey gave the president a lead of 52-41 over Kerry. All the other polls show the race as a…

Pipelines blown up in northern, southern Iraq Saboteurs set ablaze oil pipelines in both northern and southern Iraq, threatening to further cripple the country’s ailing economy and send world prices back upwards.

Good news, potheads! Marijuana Extract Shrinks Brain Tumors. A team of Spanish researchers has discovered that cannabinoids, the active ingredients in marijuana, make brain tumors shrink by halting the growth of blood vessels that feed the tumors, reports New Scientist.…

It’s a pumpkin A LARGE pumpkin. That’s a blue foot long ruler lying on top of it. Miss Monica, whose blog will be reviving itself soon, is the proud grower. As giant pumpkins go, this is still just a wee little…

George Jr sent out of Texas by father as a ‘drunken liability’ The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in…