Why Obama picked Clinton (and why people have lizards for pets)
(A match made in Heaven…?)
So, all the world’s newspapers and TV pundits are still asking themselves and us why Obama picked Clinton…
That part of the news industry, that is, that is not obsessed with the Rise and Retirement of John Sergeant, the non-dancing hero of BBC’s ‘Strictly Come Dancing’…
Or the various gossip agencies that are doing their various autopsies on the Madonna Ritchie marriage…
Or, to stay in TV land, for those of us who loved and still love Martina Navratilova, the best female tennis player ever, who have to come to terms with the fact that she has chosen to partake in that disgusting freak show ‘I’m a celebrity… Get me out of here’, where she now has to compete with the likes of Robert Kilroy-Silk and other B and C list slime creatures.
In fact, all of us know way too many examples of this phenomenon: Friends and relatives who keep picking the most disastrous partners, shoes, ties, hairdos and political candidates.
The universal question being: Why do people have this piss poor judgment in practically all aspects of their lives?
Answer: Who knows - but as the following article shows, there’s little hope we’ll ever grow out of it:
(Cuddly & cute like the clap)
Reptiles like snakes, geckos and bearded dragons have become such popular pets that they now outnumber dogs, new research has found. Calculations by the British Federation of Herpetologists (BFH) indicate that there are now as many as eight million reptiles and amphibians being kept as pets in the UK. This compares to an estimated dog population of 6.5 million.
Enter Chris Newman, chairman of the British Federation of Herpetologists:
“They are far more suitable as pets than are animals which are perceived as more traditional pets, such as cats, dogs and small mammals. Reptiles fit today’s modern lifestyles as they are less time-consuming, and can also be easier to keep, than other traditional pet species.”
Quite.
Also, putting a bullet in your brain is less time-consuming than, let’s say, having sex - and one or two pet rocks are much easier to keep than having the more traditional 2.4 children.
(Our strange fascination with reptiles)
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