Tuesday Roundup

Two stories, both hat tip Lucianne.com

Back in January, I wrote about the jumbo rabbits that a German farmer had gown and how he was sending 12 to North Korea to start a rabbit farm there to help alleviate hunger there.

Well, like South Korea, Japan, the US and others, he was burned by North Korea. In a follow-up story, his trip to North Korea has been cancelled and he believes the leaders there ate the rabbits instead of using them as breeders. That is called eating the seed corn and will only make things worse for North Korea. The generosity of the farmer (who sold the rabbits at a 60% discount) has been rewarded by his charity being wasted and he being caste by the NK media as the bad guy. Welcome to the real world.

America is coming closer to the day the incandescent light bulb is no longer available for sale in the US. The article has some interesting points on why this is a bad idea, who will profit and what the consequences are likely to be. What it doesn't say is if any of the members of Congress supporting the bill have a financial interest in seeing it passed.