Milky Way Week in Review


Our cousin and Canadian correspondent, Lemuel Dash, reports that folks are wearing anti-infection masks on the streets of Toronto. There's a press report that the reputedly laid back and tolerant Canadians are casting a suspicious eye at anybody that looks Chinese. And somebody else is reporting that so far there are no SARS cases in Japan, despite the frequent traffic to and from Hong Kong. That complicates the "yellow peril" picture, but it won't stop the kind of folks who treat anybody with a vaguely unfamiliar skin tone as al Qeda.


Brother Morgan (and for all we know, he might be a Zen monk by now) was impressed to see his nearby city of Eureka, CA make the Big Crawl on CNN for having the highest gasoline prices in the U.S. Unfortunately, the price they quoted was 5 cents a gallon less than what Morgan had just paid.

What's with this Google news site? Their computers seem to have these recurring obsessions-one week it was the Dixie Chicks (same basic story headlined for five days straight) and lately it's been cannibalism among dinosaurs (with a variation lately on cannibalism among early humans.)