Scientist Seeks Body to Make New, Improved Human
LONDON (Reuters) – A German scientist who caused a storm of protest with an exhibition of flayed human corpses is now looking for someone he can cut up and recreate as a new improved person.
The whole process — from the search for a donor through their death, dissection and reconstruction — will be broadcast on British television.

“This person will be a landmark human being,” said Gunther von Hagens, whose Body Worlds exhibition was slammed by critics as a sick freak show when it opened in London in March.

The Virtual Elvis
I LOVE this!!!!!

No Sex Please, We’re Soldiers
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germans mulling joining the army may think twice now thanks to a new regulation banning soldiers from having sex while in active service.

Schroeder’s Party Wins in Germany
BERLIN (AP) – Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s Social Democrats won Germany’s closest postwar election Sunday, after a campaign that preyed on fears of a war with Iraq and unleashed anti-American rhetoric.

I wanted Edmund Stoiber to win

Yesterday afternoon was the date with Don. I thought it went well until the very end when I said, “Well Don, it was very nice meeting you!” Don replied, “Yeah, goodbye,” and he turned and walked away!?! No “It was great meeting you and I will call you.” No “This was a lot of fun, we should do it again.” At least the other bastards had the decency to lie and tell me they enjoyed the date and planned to call. Regardless, I am happy it is over. Don was the last Match.com date. I refuse to put myself out there like that ever again.

1. Clean Roon
2. Clean Office
3. Go Out
4. Put postage on Silke’s letter and post.
5. Walk Lily
6. Pass time
7. Refuse to dwell on stupid Don
8. Live vicariously through an Audrey Hepburn or Doris Day movie.
9. Stop listening to Nick Cave and Hank Williams CDs.
10. Bake something.

U.S. Slams German Minister for Bush-Hitler Comment
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Bush’s spokesman on Thursday expressed outrage that Germany’s justice minister drew a link between Bush’s saber-rattling on Iraq to the tactics used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler.

Spokesman Ari Fleischer said the United States and Germany have long had a strong relationship, “but this statement by the justice minister is outrageous and is inexplicable.”

The regional Schwaebisches Tagblatt newspaper quoted German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s justice minister, Herta Daeubler-Gmelin, as saying “Bush wants to divert attention from his domestic problems. It’s a classic tactic. It’s one that Hitler used.”

The Bush administration has been none too pleased that criticizing the United States over Iraq has been a key campaign plank for Schroeder in his re-election battle but has refrained from publicly commenting on the issue.

Weird!

Lisa and I went to a bar this evening. Lisa talked about her students as we drank Yuengling Lagers from tap. The bartender came over to me once I finished my beer and told me that the fellow across the bar wanted to buy me a drink. I looked across to see who this generous person could be– he was a little boy with a backwards baseball cap. I told the bartender that I didn’t want a drink but tell him ‘thanks, anyway.’ Although I had already had my one beer and I certainly didn’t want another nor did I want this little boy to spend his whole allowance on me, guilt consumed me! After we paid I walked the long way around the bar so I would pass him and his little buddy. I put my hand on his back and he whipped around. “Thanks for the drink offer,” I said, “I had to decline because you are about 10 years too young… I am quite a bit older than you.” I turned and walked away and I could hear him calling out, “How old are you?” But I ignored it and kept walking.
I think I did the right thing.

Oktoberfest Bans Garish World Trade Center Mural
MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – The German city of Munich has told a fairground operator to take down a mural of New York’s World Trade Center in flames decorating his horror ride before the city’s beer festival opens Saturday.
The painting on the front wall of the “House of Horrors” ride depicts both towers billowing black smoke, echoing the hijacked-plane attacks of September 11 last year.

Lisa and I saw Serving Sara last night. It was terrible. Save your money and stay away from it. There was a scene in which Mathew Perry’s character inpersonates a vet and has to stick his arm up a bull’s derrière. Upon seeing this, I immediately thought: Didn’t I see that in an episode of All Creatures Great and Small? Isn’t that an odd memory to unearth?