The World is (not?) coming to an End!

The Hole at the Top (or Bottom)
This will be a quick post since I must leave the house shortly. The BBC is reporting that the Ozone layer, you know, the thin layer of atmosphere that keeps most of us from frying, or, at the very least, dying of cancer, is stable. It is not depleting further. They actually submit that the ozone layer is starting to improve. Now don't throw away the SPF 1000 yet but it does help boost a minute amount of optimism that we are not all going to die in a horrible apocalypse.

Along the political and somewhat useless news, Gerald Ford got a pacemaker. The Nebraskan former President went into hospital last week for a series of tests. The hospital in question is the Mayo Clinic. The President himself is 93, the oldest living president. He has been hospitalized four times in the last year or so and actually suffered a mild stroke at the Republican National Convention in 2000. Another interesting fact about Ford is that he is the only President who was elected to neither the Presidential Office nor the Vice Presidential one. He became VP when Agnew resigned and Nixon asked him. Then he took over the oval Office when Nixon himself resigned. Regardless of how you feel about political parties, the White House or Nixon (who himself has passed away), it must be noted that Ford is a President who saw extraordinary events like Watergate and Nixon's resignation but also the pullout of Vietnam. So, lets all hope for better days for the 38th President.