So, it is the eve of the year 2012.  What will this year hold for the world?  Will we come to an end as Nostradamus and the Mayans predicted?  Or will the earth continue to spin in space, third rock from our sun?

I don’t know if I really believe in the 2012 theory.  If we are coming to an end this year, we had all better get our affairs in order and make things right with whatever God we answer to.

But can anyone really predict when our world will end?  The bible says that no man shall know the day and the time, only God himself knows.  Even the son of God does not know.

Something to ponder in the year to come.

My brother Dave called today and said that there had been a murder-suicide about 20 miles from where I grew up.  It seems strange that something like that could happen in a place where everyone knows everyone else.  You never think about those things happening in small-town America.  Small towns are thought to be friendly places, where you know everyone and neighbors greet each other when they meet on the street.

This, like so many of these cases, was the result of a domestic dispute mixed with alcohol.  It is so sad that a nine-year old little girl will have to live with the memory of her father shooting her mother right in front of her.  She will surely have nightmares for the rest of her life.  I hope that she finds someone, a family member hopefully, that will take her in and nurture her so that she grows up to be a fine young woman.

I think that the shooter in this case was very selfish.  He should have thought of what would happen to his daughter, with no mother or father for the remainder of her life.  Very sad indeed.

Goodness knows I’m getting tired of hearing “the sky is falling” messages from people about how using cell phones is bad for you.  For years people have been trying to link cell phone usage with brain cancer, and now they are trying to link it with decreased fertility in men?  Good grief!  Get over it already!  If there is decreased fertility in men, where exactly are they holding their cell phones?

My sister sent me a link to a story on a news site that she likes to read about a story of some Danish college students who were kicked off of Facebook because they had documented with photographs (posted on the web) themselves cooking and eating a cat.  They claimed that they were doing this to protest the way that people eat animals in general, and that their cat was a feral cat killed by a farmer who was trying to control the number of cats on his land, but their efforts created such a huge outrage that they ended up getting kicked off of Facebook.

I know that there are some cultures that eat cats (and dogs) routinely, but those are two animals that I cannot imagine myself eating on purpose.  If I could arrange my life so that I was a vegetarian I would do so, but my life is a little too complicated for that right now.

I was reading an article on ananova.com a story that prisoners in a Bosnian jail were using pigeons to smuggle heroin into jail.  It seems that one of the rehabilitation programs in the jail involves raising pigeons, and someone in the program took it a little bit further than intended.  The “guilty” pigeon has been put behind birdy bars.  I’m surprised that the folks in charge of security didn’t see something like this as a possiblity of happening as a result of raising pigeons!