It is so easy to ignore the symptoms - not of urine infection, but what's happening in the world.  We have out own little lives to lead with lots of problems, many not in anyway of our making...

Sometimes I think about the nineteen thirties.  Couldn't our parents or grandparents see what was happening?  What it all leading up to?  Even in the newspapers of the time most of the evidence was there.  Though in most the gloss was Pandergloss.

And now, the evidence of madness and impending catastrophes is there for all of us to see.  It's more comforting not to notice.

By the way, I'm not only referring to global warming.

Take this example of madness. In a report which the BritGov only published today because of the Freedom of Information Act, consultants argue that creating  drug free prisons is too expensive to be a practical option.  Also individual drug tests are pointless because "clean" inmates can sell their urine samples.

So - what is the point of jailing drug addicts?  Certainly not to cure anyone.

To change the subject...

Dolphins have been dying in large numbers off the coast of North Cornwall.  No one knows quite why, but the likely cause seems to be underwater explosions carried out by the Royal Navy, which the Navy - of course - deny although several unparanoid, unpolitical local fishermans and residents heard loud, almost earth-shaking bangs.

Meanwhile, deeper at sea, the US Navy is playing "music" to whales - against international treaty, because it interferes with whales' own communications with each other - in order to develop new weapons.