Gitmo is six

I missed noticing this until today, but Guantanamo Bay's odious prison camp marked its sixth anniversary on Friday, an event marked by Amnesty International. Gee, I feel so much safer, hasn't the world become a much better place as a result of this place and the rest of Bush's foreign policy (not to mention their State Department announcing that under US law it is legal for them to go to another country, including Britain and kidnap someone they think is a suspect)? If only Gitmo made as much sense as most six year olds... (via Boing Boing)

100 year old twins

Nice story on the BBC about a pair of twins celebrating their one hundredth birthday on New Year's Day. When they were born in 1908 the doctor arrived on horseback. The way petrol prices are going they might be going back to that method of transportation sooner than we think :-). Happy New Year, folks.