Ear today, gone tomorrow

With all that's going on in the world today:

• The Red Sox won another World Series (bad)
• The Yankees hired Joe Girardi (good)
• There's talk about tax hikes (bad)
• And tax cuts (good)
• There was a major bombing in Iraq (bad)
• The fires in California are mostly contained (very good)

This is the news item that reminded me that life is sometimes a Kurt Vonnegut novel:


Chopper pulled by ear