Badger cull discredited

Quality eating guys

Who knows what George Dalmon and Andy Miles did. They got banned. For life. From an all you can eat restaurant.

Reflect on this a moment.

How many times have you been to an all you can eat restaurant or buffet, thinking “I could eat a horse, they're going to be pleased to see the back of me”.

How many times have you left to “thanks, come again soon” thinking “really, is that all I can eat?”

An old sun

NASA have images of what will happen to our sun, in about five billion years. It will run out of fuel and shrink to about the size of the earth. It will be dense. A spoonful of old-age sun will weigh about as much as several elephants.

If the mass stays the same, presumably the planets, or at least some of them, for a while, should remain in orbit, albeit freezing cold.

There's a veg shortage

Including Brussels Sprouts. Also including spuds, parsnips, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, caulies and swedes.

We'll have to go big on the Yorkshire pudding, stuffing, and other bits, I suppose. Or get inventive.

Kill 'em, I say. Kill 'em all

Anyone (like me) opposed to culling badgers (for culling read killing) will be interested to note that our farmers have been rubbish in stopping the spread of bovine TB between herds. The case for the cull, supported (predictably) by the usual suspects and Westminster, has been undermined (as in blown out of the water) by the usual suspects failing to do their jobs. Data not kept up to date, sensible measures ignored, all that.

Intuitively, killing badgers was a nonsense. Face it, our farmers and our politicians are generally cruel people. Our national religious leaders support the view that animals are only here for our benefit (like we're some higher form? Honestly. Look at us).

Sri Lanka go through

World T20 hosts. Always nice when the host nation does well. They'll face the Windies or the Aussies in the final. Should be another good game tomorrow and another good game in the final. Have a listen to the Sri Lanka national anthem. Starts off very well. “This is ok, for an anthem” you think. Six hours later, after a few false finishes when it seems to be winding up then gets going again, it's still ok, just very much too long. An unfair advantage. Opponents will have fatigue (at best) and possibly deep vein thrombosis after standing still that long.