Definition: A train wreck most often occurs as a result of an accident, such as when a train wheel jumps off a track in a derailment, or miscommunication, as when a moving train meets another train on the same track. The term is sometimes used metaphorically to describe a disaster that is foreseeable but unavoidable.

Also see Amy Whinehouse.

Good lord. It just gets weirder and weirder. Very talented woman, but she seriously needs some help. Now.

I wonder if any presidential candidate can ever really live up to the scrutiny of the political process. Obama’s campaign is again getting put on the spot for another person he is associated with doing something wrong in the past….I think that to some degree who you associate with matters,but ultimately it is the conduct of the individual that is the only thing that matters.  I was definitely all pro-Hillary, but I think ultimately Obama is impressive and will make a great president. Its simple a mission to find people that you feel have integrity, intelligence and are willing to listen to other people- someone with no skeletons in their closet, friends closets, co-workers closets is impossible to find. Obama definitely fits my requirements – way more than any current or future republican has done during this process.

The latest outbreak of salmonella via tomato this time has a certain irony to it, not of course to those ill with salmonella cause that’s just awful, but in general there is a level of intellectual irony. (Uh, oh! GEEK ALERT!)

It’s ironic because of a random factoid that influenced eating habits relating to the tomato— the British believed that for many years the tomato was poisonous (largely) because of work based on the work of one grower in the early 1600’s. For well over a hundred years the tomato was considered unfit for eating in England, America and many other British colonies.

By the way, this guy with the tomatoes is pretty scary looking. Good advertising to keep people away from the tomatoes, I guess.