You couldn't make it up dept. no.57: believe it or not, an intelligent person wrote the following:

Nobody with a modicum of self-control HAS to fall in love

(The author of the Roscesvalles blog, to be precise.)

Which goes to show that intelligent people can write the most fantastically idiotic things when they go outside their own areas of experience. IN other words, if you have never been in love, shut up about it.

You couldn't make it up dept. no.58: I am tempted to say, politics as usual

From today's Sky News:

An Independent councillor who sold a woman with learning difficulties for sex has been given a 12-month suspended jail sentence.( Read more... )