I'm tired of being exceedingly overweight. I'm tired of my back hurting. I'm tired of my feet hurting. I'm tired of struggling to put on my shoes. I'm tired of being tired. I've been fat ever since I can remember. When I was a baby I was definitely fat. There are pictures of me when I was six where I wasn't fat, but then I remember being tormented by my “peers” in third grade. So what happened? Although now when I look at some pictures I could cry because the child I see was not really that fat. She is…

Blaze of Stupidity Swiss police report that a Zurich man burned down his apartment and two others in an attempt to kill some wasps. His extermination tools of choice: a full can of insect spray and a cigarette lighter. First, the man doused a nest of wasps living under the roof overhang of his apartment building. When the wasps emerged, raging like… wasps, he whipped out his trusty lighter and poof: There goes the neighborhood. No one was hurt, but the blaze caused $350,000 in damage. The wasps still may be at large. And the man awaits a much-needed visit…

US Republican Party outsources fund raising to India Also: http://www.business-standard.com/archives/2003/jan/50310103.016.asp The US Republican Party now has a band of young and enthusiastic fund-raisers in Noida and Gurgaon. HCL eServe, the business process outsourcing arm of the Shiv Nadar-promoted HCL Technologies, has bagged a project to undertake a fund-raising campaign for the US Republican Party over the telephone. This is the first time such a project has been handed out to a company outside the US. The market research and public relations companies engaged by the party usually undertake such projects.