Going to the Post Office is a pain in the neck. Our neighborhood is apparently so dangerous that they need thick plexiglass there. Some think it is to protect the postal workers from robberies…but we think it is to prevent angry customers from rushing the postal employees.

The Associated Press recently reported that as part of a “retail standardization plan,” clocks have been removed 37,000 post offices. Unless they start medicating us while on line, I think with or without a clock, a visit to the post office is going to take a long time.

We recently gave up and bought a postal scale and started using Click N Ship on the USPS website. You can mail order everything you need. The Post Office will send you priority mailer boxes free of charge, as well as all the other postal equipment you need. And we bought blank shipping labels. With any luck, we’ll never have to see the inside of a post office again…

If we only could find a way to deal with our less than professional mail carrier…

A Bangkok radio station’s attempt to entertain military troops by hiring a contingent of go-go dancers has been rebuffed by the leaders of Thailand’s coup. Said a military spokesman “We have to maintain the seriousness of the coup.”

The Thai Ministry of Silly Walks was unavailable for comment.

Jessica Durham of Montana recently had her conviction upheld for giving her 18 month old daughter hits from a bong. (Former) friend Brandi Nichols testified that

Durham encouraged photographs of her 18-month-old daughter with the water pipe and said Durham wanted to send the pictures to a marijuana magazine.

Nothing like a proud mother taking pictures of her child’s firsts.

Judge Louis Pollak explained that

Ms. Durham allegedly remarked that smoking improved Michala’s appetite and left Michala lethargic and mellow – a manner she found consistent with her own experience smoking marijuana

I suppose it beats shaking your baby to death, but we tend to frown upon medicating children into submission. Independent Sources wonders how the child will answer questions regarding drug use on future job applications.

Perhaps our style of parenting is old-fashioned, but we prefer allowing children to bang on pots and not allowing them to smoke pot. And while first haircuts, and first steps and first words are milestones worth remembering, a mother who believes a first bong hit is a milestone worth capturing should surely have a new milestone to celebrate: first mug shot.

British commuters were bemused to discover that their trains were delayed due to clement weather. Apparently it was such a beautifully sunny day that a train driver was unable to use his mirror to check the platform for passengers embarking or disembarking. London trains have along history of odd excuses for service interruption including “leaves on the line,” “the wrong kind of snow,” and “the wrong kind of soil” beneath the track.