Thursday, September 26, 2002

So what’s going on in the news today.

Well, there’s the fascinating story of Richard Van Pham, 62 year old Vietnamese immigrant to the US, who set sail from Long Beach to Catalina one day. Four months later, he was rescued of the coast of Costa Rica. What should have been a three hour journey went south (literally) when his mast and radio broke in a storm.

Then there’s Prince Charles meddling in politics. Beats being a tampon, I suppose.

The Guardian has a feature on treating Alzheimer’s disease with cannabis. Perhaps this man could do with some. Apposite as I’m currently reading a book which has as one of its characters a retired man suffering from this degenerative disorder.

:: Posted by pete @ 12:56