Let us brainstorm about Libya

The question is, if a goose is hit in the leg by a golf ball how long can that goose live with one leg?

Those who've studied the issue have found no good answer. Geese can live as long as 60 years, though living without a leg undoubtedly makes for a more difficult life for a goose.

It's not thought that Rilke had geese in mind when he wrote, "you must change your life."

As he was speaking yesterday the presidential candidate looked as if he was choking on a piece of steak bavette. At first he turned orange, then red. A long swallow or two of 2010 Chateau Prudeaux Bandol brought him back to his senses, but not before he'd fallen to the floor, flailing there on his back, kicking his little legs in the air, moving his hands like Mussolini.

The black hole was not actually discovered by an astrophysicist but by a shy neuroscientist in Kansas who proposed that the real black hole is human nature, and that there are as many black holes in space as there are people.