While perousing the news section of I come across the article linking the childhood obesity epidemic to TV addiction. Well, what do you know? Geez, don't kids know how to do sit-ups, push-ups, lunges and crunches while indulging in the daily ritual of commercial garbage to keep themselves lean and fit? Having just begun training at a gym, I consider myself in a different league to these obese TV addicts because: a) I am not obese, and I don't watch TV. So that pretty much sorts me ou...

Fourteen Killed as Turkish train hits minibus. Millions stranded by Bangalese Floodwaters. Columbia's biggest cocaine haul ever discovered. ...and another car bomb in Baghdad. Is that all the world can offer? Throwing segments of beliefs and religion, add a touch of terror an threat, top it off with natural disasters and- well- you wonder why my days are spent curled up into a ball in a black room with minmal furnishings. My head is in a dark enough place as it is, even without...