"Despite efforts to hire English teachers for the trolls, most of the comments are written in barely coherent English."

"The bizarre hive of social media activity appears to be part of a two-pronged Kremlin campaign to claim control over the internet, launching a million-dollar army of trolls to mold American public opinion as it cracks down on internet freedom at home."

"Please do not flush toilet paper down the toilet! Put it in the bin provided."

Have the visitors to Sochi never lived on a property serviced by a septic system?

The underground press ...

in Soviet-occupied Lithuania.

It's not the baby ... it's Lupo.

Lupo, the royal Cocker, gets his head stuck in a gate, and village fireman rush to his rescue.

Roo Row

The Australian Prime Minister sparks controversy because a story features her knitting a toy kangaroo for the royal baby. Here's more about the "charm offensive."

 

A columnist chided the Prime Minister for "giving encouragement to young female politicians by plying a hobby now synonymous with mad old aunts." Hey! We were just talking about knitting aunts. 

 

Australians should embrace knitting—even staged, political knitting. Australia once was a leading producers of knitting wool. In the 1960s and 1970s, Mom and I often ordered yarn from Australia.

 

Incidentally, Germaine Greer thinks the Prime Minister has "got a big ass." It's nice to see that Greer still is wearing those scarves.
 
Baaaaaa: 
 

 

 

Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, June 26, 2013. Ignore the gawkers and do your own thing.

 

UPDATE: The Prime Minister is out.

Disconnecting the Conclave

USCCB Blog reports:

Jamming devices will be installed in the Sistine Chapel to prevent electronic eavesdropping. Staff who serve meals at the Casa Santa Marta, where the cardinals will stay during the Conclave, will be sworn to secrecy. Even who said “pass the salt” is a secret. In this electronic age, I worry some cardinals may go into iPad and Twitter withdrawal.

Hey! Conclave proceedings are meant to be secret: the selection "process is designed to prevent any of the details of the voting emerging, either during or after the conclave. The threat of excommunication hangs over anyone tempted to break this silence."

Even some British ...

... don't understand knitting.

Headline

Misleading.

Champion of breast cancer research . . . dies of ovarian cancer.