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Tuesday, 2006 January 10 - 12:48 am
Boy, there's always STUFF going on in the world, and that means I have to write about it. Today's topics: karma, Cubans, and cough syrup.

Proving there's such a thing as karma: A man in New Mexico found a mouse in his house, and decided to dispose of it by BURNING IT ALIVE in a pile of leaves. The flaming mouse ran back into the house, starting a fire that eventually destroyed the house and everything in it. Ahh, sweet justice.

Fifteen Cuban refugees made it to a bridge piling in the Florida Keys, only to be sent back home because the piling was not deemed to be "dry land". The U.S. "wet-foot, dry-foot" policy has been to allow refugees to stay in the country upon reaching dry land, but apparently, the bridge piling did not qualify. After being detained by immigration officials, one of the Cubans was set on fire; he then ran into the U.S. and burned down the entire country.

Cough syrup is, apparently, a scam. A recent study has indicated that most over-the-counter cough medicines do little to actually relieve coughs. They either provide drugs never proven to fight coughs, or provide doses too low to be effective. As someone who has downed bottle after bottle of the 'tussin to try to get rid of a cough, this is very disturbing. It's kind of like the way I felt when they revealed that the McDonald's Monopoly-game promotion was also a big rip-off, after I had eaten about two thousand Big Macs. Dang it.
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Comment #1 from Jenn (Guest)
2006 Jan 10 - 10:05 pm : #
I actually read today that the flaming mouse story was a scam...he killed the mouse first, then set it on fire, and then high winds picked up burning stuff and caught the house on fire. So maybe it was burning, dead, flying mouse that did it!
Comment #2 from Ken (realkato)
2006 Jan 11 - 2:31 am : #
There seems to be some confusion there... the guy told a TV station that it was winds, but then later went back to saying it was the mouse. The official fire department report will list the mouse as the culprit. And I still think it's karma. :)

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