shadow cabinet

I am light on work at the moment because all my planning is done and in place and I am literally drowning in hayfever stock, which is hard to sell when people are preoccupied with dodging hailstones the size of cannonballs.

Also I overindulged last night, which is why I couldn't manage to do anything today and also why I'm sitting in my house without any trousers on (they were too confining in my delicate condition).

So today I spent a considerable amount of time reading Wikipedia. Wikipedia is my go-to time-wasting arena now Facebook has been banned at work. Today the topic of interest was school massacres. Previous forays have included the Titanic; Robert Mugabe; the Khmer Rouge; American deth-row prisoners; American female serial killers; Australian prison colonies; SOS and CQD; the Bay of Pigs invasion; the history of the Rus'; and the American Emergency Broadcast System. It's hard to know where my interest will take me on any given day.

Anyway, today's expedition was prompted by today being the one-year anniversary of the Virgina Tech massacre. I was intrigued, as I heard on the radio this morning that the kids at Virginia Tech apparantly still don't feel safe and want to be allowed to carry handguns on campus.

I read a lot about America because I'm very interested in any country whose inhabitants think that the way to reduce the number of gun-related incidents is not to restrict the sale of handguns to people who can prove that they would not be subject to unfavourable psychological evaluations, but to actually increase their availability to allcomers with $50 and a copy of the constitution.

What America can't see is that I am slow-handclapping them in the most sarcastic way.

Here endeth today's out-of-character editorial comment.