Cav's Place

The media is still living off Andrada’s suicide, Andrada being the emo girl I mentioned in my previous post, but now the sensationalism seems to be wearing off and that leaves room for some more serious and balanced comments. It’s not easy to pick them out of the sea of idiocy, but at least they […]

The media from here is flooded with news about how this or that influenced a teen to do a certain thing. Not that talk about such influences isn’t relatively common anyway, but lately there have been several events that they could use as examples, like the 13 year old guy who killed one of his […]

There was an article yesterday in a newspaper from here praising a special team of doctors that has been created in Iasi to deal with the very large number of suicide attempts. The title was “They Are the Guardian Angels of Suicidal People” and there was a lot of talking about how they “save” their […]

Work has started on my room, in hopes of removing the mold for good. Or at least that’s what dad and the workman hope, I don’t. I don’t because the entire original plan was to strip the walls bare, down to the concrete, then apply an anti-mold substance and then repaint. It didn’t address what […]

As expected, the big push for ethanol production is being challenged at the highest levels. It was only a matter of time before this happened. They didn’t lash out against it initially when it was “just” forests being cut down and habitat devastated to make room for more fields, but now it started directly affecting […]