Bah. Sometimes I think I shouldn't read the news.

I have succeeded in not talking news here for quite some time. Since about the Iraq invasion. This is probably a good thing. Nobody needs to read yet another rant on how bad the world is, how stupid a certain President is, or whatever, and these things will only get me worked up anyway.

But. Surprisingly, most US federally funded abstinence-only programmes are full of lies. Our animal rights crazies increasingly remind me of US anti-abortionists. Oh, and there's the occasional typhoon, some dead and we got pictures.

Another one: I don't understand how a person or organisation contributing a small proportion of the costs of an academy should have any say over what goes on there. Reminds me of various fundamentally uneconomical privitisation schemes.

See? I shall try to avoid the news.