I've known for a long time that I come from the same town as Sting. I didn't know until today that in 1991 he played a gig 500 yards from where I was born and brought up for the first 18 years of my life. Small world...

 http://www.sting.com/news/news.php?uid=4523

Clement Freud is a sad loss. He told this joke on a radio programme and many consider it the funniest joke ever told. It's at least partly funny because you don't expect someone like Clement Freud to tell a joke with this kind of punchline. You have to be made of stone if you can't at least raise a smile to this:

 

Hot on the heels of Susan Boyle the Britains Got Talent show discovers Shaheen Jafargholi. Check out this video on YouTube:

 

Excellent basic description of my diabetic condition - type 2 -

 http://www.patient.co.uk/showdoc/23068721/

Interesting Harvard Gazette reported study probing links between rage, depression, diabetes...

 http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/08.26/01-anger.html

I thoroughly enjoyed this exceptionally well written and well targeted rebuke aimed at some of "our nations finest" by David Mitchell.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/apr/12/david-mitchell-jonathan-r...

I could have done without stumbling across this news. Although I don't suffer from hypos I am diabetic and have known for years that my memory is getting worse. Trying to be a little positive I suppose that the medical advance the research represents means that they are a step closer to understanding the issues even if a cure remains beyond reach...

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7937947.stm

Michael Portillo makes some interesting comments about the Prime Minister in today's Times. I certainly empathized with the observations about the public being pretty fed up with banker bonus payments and the like. There is no doubt that there is a feeling that we have returned to an era of sleaze but I don't get a sense of the rage that was present the last time we experieced ongoing revelations of snouts in the troff which signalled the downfall of the Major government. I wonder how this percieved lack of rage will translate at the ballot box if Brown can maintain the illusion that he is not at least partly culpable for our economic problems and that his Treasury experience makes him the man to steer us to calmer waters. Cameron is not Obama and I can't see him delivering victory simply on a "time for a change agenda... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/articl...

  
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I'm more of a dog person myself but all creatures deserve more respect than this... http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/04/11/2009-04-11_unhappy_holidays_r...