Saturday

Wednesday 13 March: New deadly sins pronounced in a Vatican drive for relevance


09:00 
1943 WWII: Nazi troops under sadistic SS commander Amon Goeth liquidate Jewish ghetto in Krakow, Poland, deporting residents to concentration camps


Nazi murder march, 1943
09:08
And why does this ailment not have a proper name? "Winter Vomiting Bug" - I mean, is it a form of heatstroke? Due to the damp? Dampstroke.
"She has dampstroke, nurse, puking her guts. Hot and cold. Can't come to work today."
09:17
First they asked the patients to stop coming to hospital. Now they want visitors to quit. Meanwhile the staff are off sick.
10:10
Serge of hormones, 1919
Franco-Russian transplant pioneer Serge Voronoff made headlines in 1919 by grafting monkey testicles onto human males.
10:47
New deadly sins pronounced in a Vatican drive for relevance. It's a deadly sin nouvelle to harm the environment and also, to wear a condom. Yet having babies creates a carbon footprint like no other human activity. Damnable paradox. It's a sin to do stem cell research and to engage in that which is "morally dubious". Like a guy who has to go everywhere with his hands where we can see them isn't dubious. A sin to contribute to the never decreasing growth in the gap between rich and poor, having excessive wealth and creating poverty. We are all in the line of fire so.
10:50
The original deadly sins are pretty cool:
1. Pride
2. Envy
3. Gluttony
4. Lust
5. Anger
6. Greed
7. Sloth
11:07
Joke. For Greek army read "Pope's Army":
Q) How do you separate the men from the boys in the Greek Army?
A) With a crowbar.
15:15
The headlines shout at gun crime and gangland slime. I hurdle over them and bound towards the milk. I'm having a fresh-ground coffee.
17:26
Tram shunts off.
- Paddy's day is next week, isn't it?
- For real.
Tram shunts past the Bridewell police barracks.
- Oh. Many's the night I spent in there.
18:01
Minister for Accepting Cheques says:
I had no hand act or part in the Ballycullen rezoning. Except the hand that passed the cheque back to HQ.