A break for me perchance and for you my wish that you may have an entertaining Halloween ...

Going camping for a few days and will not be posting ... unless my new Verizon wireless broadband will work from the campsite, which I do not expect to be the case ...

Articles like this is what makes the web king ...

... until, that is, the communication companies, in concert with a corrupt and deranged Republican Party (along with many complicit Democrats), gain final and absolute control of the web and turn it into a vast teenager messaging service and corporate email net. As for the rest of us? Expect shopping channels, I mean web sites, and commercially produced videos with the aim of dulling down the populace even more than has already been accomplished by TV and Cable programming.

But until then we have stupendous articles like 'Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite' popping up with marvelous frequency. Imagine finding such a fine, informative and timely article in your local newspaper ... by-the-way, have you learned anything new from you local paper recently?