SNIPPETS

OCTOBER 26,  2009

From London's Telegraph:  Halloween has been 'cancelled' in Britain's most haunted village.   Pluckley residents are fed up of being invaded by hundreds of ghost-hunting revellers, causing vandalism and traffic chaos.  The village is said to have at least 12 spectres, including a highwayman, a phantom monk, the hanging body of a schoolmaster and a poltergeist in the local pub.

If this were Chicago, they'd all be eligible to vote.  Twice.

OCTOBER 25,  2009

From The New York Times:   Parent alert: the Walt Disney Company is now offering refunds for all those “Baby Einstein” videos that did not make children into geniuses.  They may have been a great electronic baby sitter, but the unusual refunds appear to be a tacit admission that they did not increase infant intellect.

Apparently, the parents, who fell for it, weren't geniuses either.  Where do the kids get a refund?