Move Over, Gerald McBoing-Boing

... and make room on the perch for Boris McChirp-Chirp:

From The Sun:

Bird Boy Found in Russia

BOY can reportedly only communicate by 'chirping' - after living his life in a virtual aviary.

According to reports from Russia, the 7-year-old 'bird boy' has spent his life in a flat filled with bird cages with a mum who treated him like one of her pets.

Pravda said the boy's 31-year-old mum did not talk him and treated him like a bird, forcing him to learn avian language.

Social worker Galina Volskaya said shocked authorities discovered the boy in a two-bedroom apartment with bird mess littering the floor.

Volskaya said: “When you start talking to him, he chirps."

And she added that the boy becomes frustrated at not being able to communicate and flaps his arms.

Pravda reported that authorities believe the boy is suffering from Mowgli syndrome, after the Jungle Book character who is raised by wild animals.

The boy has reportedly been released by authorities and put in a medical facility.

Tricky Mazes

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Hillary Zings Obama

It is unfortunate that Hillary is being beaten to her left, albeit only slightly. She can't really go after Obama's policies, since they are hard to differentiate from her own proposals, so she has been going after his style. The plagiarism angle didn't work. The raison d'etre of the Democratic party is taking money from people, so what does it matter to the base that he took a few words here and there?

Drudge posted a link to a video where she goes after the cult of Obama with a dose of sarcasm. It might be too late for her but I got a chuckle out of her statement.

Addicted to Heat

Capped off my physical therapy session with 10 minutes of soothing heating pad relief. Forgot to bring one from home into work today so I have to improvise. My office is chilly so I have an electric radiator next to my chair. I just reach right over and put my little lumbar pillow on there for a minute or two then place it behind me and melt into my chair. Aaaah. Repeat as necessary.

Let no presents go unused!

Several years ago now, my wife got me a Brookstone Single-Cup coffee maker for my office.
I meant to use it, but was in the habit of drinking instant coffee at work so I put it in my drawer and forgot about it. Then one day three or four weeks ago, I ran out of instant coffee, was out of walking-around money, and had a surplus of ground coffee at home. Now I've been using it regularly!

Immigration Nightmare

Springdale, Arkansas, with a high population of immigrants from the Marshall Islands is facing outbreaks of leprosy and tuberculosis.

Sounds like it is time for a quarantine before this spreads.