Saturday, August 24, 2013

I like to keep on top of the news, and wound up subscribing to a site that has this interesting link.  One of the latest stories is:

Brazil Drops “I’m A Happy Prostitute” Campaign


Denis Foynes- The slogan “I’m happy being a prostitute” has been dropped from a campaign from the Brazilian health ministry. Other posters in the campaign declared, "I cannot be seen without a condom, my love."
There are lots of other interesting if not prurient (that's a fancy wurd I learnt in skool) stories that I thought you might also be interested to read.  Such as 


Many of the stories relate to Panama as the author lives and works in Panama.  Check out: http://news.liveandinvestoverseas.com/Lifestyle/top-ten-smoking-countries1.html

Wednesday, August 21, 2013

I thought it was pretty impressive when Consumer Reports gave it's highest rating ever recorded to the Tesla Model S, but Elon Musk must be wetting his pants on this one.  The NHSTA says the Model S scored the best safety rating of any vehicle they have ever tested.  And, get this, Tesla says the NHSTA rollover testing equipment BROKE when the car reached 4 g's of load--four time's the car's fully-loaded weight on the roof structure.

Man, what a car!