The arrest of a physics professor at New Jersey’s Fairleigh Dickinson University for running a prostitution ring via web site has startled people.  (Well, physics can be pretty dry stuff). And now a former University of New Mexico president has been arrested for running a similar service. These guys should have gotten together. They could have considered the logical name that is implicit in the “Cluck-U” chicken franchise. They were thinking of starting a new higher-education institution, good old F.U. Read more...

The Circle of Life has struck our household. One car is repaired; another dies. It reminds me of the great lesson from Disney’s classic “The Lion King.”  Mufasa: “When we die, our bodies become the grass and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great circle of life.” Simba: “Is that where we get the phrase, ‘Your ass is grass'?” Mufasa: “Yes, son. It is.” … It’s little known that when the “Lion King” was at the height of its popularity, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protested the harsh treatment of hyenas. Read more...

A hiking trail for nudists has opened in Germany. I guess that makes looking for ticks a lot easier although it gives them a lot more to latch onto. Read more...