Flight or Fight

The older I get, the less patient I seem to become with others of our species. So, in an attempt to avoid said creatures, I have taken to staying up all night and sleeping in the mornings. Unfortunately, this plan comes with downsides; late night tv makes one want to impale themselves on a blunt spoon fastened to the floor. One such program, "Destination Tomorrow" put out by NASA, has taken an interesting tact in encouraging people to fly. Not is it more likely you will die in a car crash, but there's a 98% chance the in-flight meal will kill you before a crash will. Luckily there wasn't already a stigma concerning airline food.

In sports news, a new fad is sweeping the globe. Chess boxing, a sport in which fighters alternate rounds of boxing and chess, brings the thrill of ass kicking together with making the opponent your intellectual bitch.