Other mores...

Did you enjoy hearing Ukraine's Julia Tymoshenko call her political opponent a cockroach this morning on NPR?

Yesterday we read that Aztecs held their misbehaving children over hot fires full of chile peppers as a punishment. My son said, "I would rather have my allowance held back, but that's just me."

Around here a lot of people don't want to pay to have old refrigerators and ranges hauled away, so they leave them in the woods. However, their recycling impulses are strong, so they use them for target practice (else why are they full of bullet holes?) - in preparation for any appearance of big cubical albino deer.

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